Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014Jas. 5:7<\/i><\/p>\n
6917<\/b> Trust And OK<\/b><\/p>\n
I rather like the small boy\u2019s version of the hymn, \u201cTrust and Obey,\u201d when he said that at Sunday school they had been singing \u201cTrust and O. K.\u201d Good! Everything must be O. K. if the life has been committed to His precious keeping. There is no other way. <\/p>\n
\u2014Expositor<\/i><\/p>\n
6918<\/b> Middle Verse Of Bible<\/b><\/p>\n
This text is found in a Psalm which is signalized by the fact that it contains the middle verse of the Bible, namely, \u201cIt is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man\u201d (Ps. 118:9). <\/p>\n
6919<\/b> Moody\u2019s Favorite Verse<\/b><\/p>\n
Dwight L. Moody\u2019s favorite verse was Isaiah 12:2: \u201cI will trust, and not be afraid.\u201d He used to say: \u201cYou can travel first-class or second-class to heaven. Second class is, \u201cWhat time I am afraid, I will trust.\u201d First class is, \u201cI will trust, and not be afraid.\u201d\u201d That is the better way. Why not buy a first-class ticket? (Ps 56:3). <\/p>\n
6920<\/b> Both Awake? <\/b><\/p>\n
Bishop Bashford, in one of his Episcopal tours in China, was one night compelled to sleep outdoors, under the trees, the hotel keeper warning him about marauders. Being watchful and wakeful awhile, he thought of the words of the Psalmist, and then said to the Lord, \u201cThere is no use both of us being awake,\u201d so he slept the sleep of the just. <\/p>\n
6921<\/b> Sultan Was Pleased<\/b><\/p>\n
A poor woman, in an Eastern city, made complaint to the Sultan that while she slept her all was taken by thieves. \u201cWherefore did you sleep?\u201d asked the Sultan. \u201cMy Lord,\u201d was the response, \u201cI slept because I thought you were ever awake.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sultan, pleased with her simple faith in his care of his people, restored to her more than she had lost. How calmly may the Christian both lie down and sleep, knowing that his God is ever guarding him, for He slumbers not, neither is weary of watching. <\/p>\n
\u2014A. Bernard Webber<\/p>\n
6922<\/b> Her Turn To Sleep In Middle<\/b><\/p>\n
A father asked one of his three little girls who had just gone to bed if she had said her prayers. She said that she had not. He asked her if she were not afraid to go to bed without having prayed. She answered, \u201cNot tonight, for it is my turn to sleep in the middle.\u201d<\/p>\n
When telling that story a generation ago, Dr. John Robertson of Scotland said, \u201cBefore God, I know that feeling. When I was in the multitude I did not have to lean upon God. A great kirk I had about me, great ecclesiastical authorities about me, and I was an ecclesiastically big man myself. I was moderator of the Metropolitan Presbytery of the city of Edinburgh, and I did not feel a great need to lean upon God. I felt that I could do somehow without prayer, for I was in the middle. But now I need to cry to God, for I am no longer in the middle. I need to wait upon Him. I can\u2019t do without the Lord Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Donald Grey Barnhouse<\/p>\n
6923<\/b> Lincoln\u2019s Bible<\/b><\/p>\n
Joseph R. Sizoo, one-time pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington which Abraham Lincoln often attended, says he will never forget the day he held in his hands for the first time the Bible of Abraham Lincoln. It was the Bible from which Lincoln\u2019s mother had read to him as a child. She had taught him to commit to memory many of its passages. It was the only possession Lincoln carried from Pigeon Creek to the Sangamon River. And book in my hand, I wondered where it would fall open. It opened to a page which was thumbmarked and which he must have read many times. It was the thirty-seventh Psalm, \u201cFret not thyself because of evildoers. \u2026 Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him\u201d (Ps. 37:1, 7). <\/p>\n
\u2014James Hastings<\/p>\n
6924<\/b> Cromwell\u2019s Secretary<\/b><\/p>\n
Oliver Cromwell\u2019s secretary was dispatched to the continent on some important business. He stayed one night at a seaport town, and tossed on his bed, unable to sleep. <\/p>\n
According to an old custom, a servant slept in his room, and on this occasion slept soundly enough. The secretary at length awakened the man who asked how it was that his master could not rest. <\/p>\n
\u201cI am so afraid something will go wrong with the embassage,\u201d was the reply. <\/p>\n
\u201cMaster,\u201d said the valet, \u201cmay I ask a question or two?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid God rule the world before we were born?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMost assuredly He did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd will He rule it after we are dead?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCertainly He will.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen, master, why not let Him rule the present, too?\u201d<\/p>\n
The secretary\u2019s faith was stirred, peace was the result, and in a few minutes both he and his servant were in sound sleep. <\/p>\n
\u2014Gleanings<\/p>\n
6925<\/b> Hudson Taylor\u2019s Discovery<\/b><\/p>\n
On June 25, 1865, James Hudson Taylor at thirty-three came to the great crisis of his life. The locale was Brighton beach on the south coast of England. There on a quiet Sunday morning he took a step of faith in response to a simple spiritual principle he had just discovered. He was surprised that this truth had so long eluded him. \u201cIf we are obeying the Lord, the responsibility rests with him, not with us!\u201d Months of struggle were over, and the way ahead was clear. To obey the Scriptures and trust God to be faithful to his pledged Word was not rash. <\/p>\n
Throwing caution and tradition to the winds, Hudson Taylor formed the China Inland Mission. <\/p>\n
\u2014Arthur F. Glasser<\/p>\n
6926<\/b> Place No Confidence In Man<\/b><\/p>\n
The king of Italy and the king of Bohemia promised John Huss safe transport and safe custody. They broke their promises, however, and Huss was martyred. Thomas Wentworth carried a document signed by King Charles I which read, \u201cUpon the word of a king you shall not suffer in life, honour, or fortune.\u201d Shortly afterwards, however, his death warrant was signed by the same monarch. \u201cPut not your trust in princes,\u201d were his last words. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt is better to trust in the Lord\u201d than in anyone or anything else. <\/p>\n
\u2014Selected<\/p>\n
6927<\/b> Trusting Unproved Swords<\/b><\/p>\n
There was a British regiment once ordered to charge a body of French cuirassiers. The trumpets sounded, and away they went boldly at them; but not to victory. They broke like a wave that launches itself against a rock. They were sacrificed to a trader\u2019s fraud. Forged not of truest steel, but worthless metal, their swords bent double at the first stroke. <\/p>\n
What could human strength of the most gallant bravery do against such odds? They were slaughtered like sheep on field. And ever since I read that tragedy I have thought I would not go to battle unless my sword was proved. <\/p>\n
\u2014Dr. Guthrie<\/p>\n
6928<\/b> God Is Too Wise To \u2026 <\/b><\/p>\n
At the 1951 session of the Southern Baptist Convention in San Francisco, M. T. Rankin led a prayer of thanksgiving for the life of martyred missionary William Wallace. The prayer included this sentence, rich in illustrating value, \u201cGod is too wise to make a mistake, too good to do evil.\u201d<\/p>\n
6929<\/b> Putting Down Whole Weight<\/b><\/p>\n
To celebrate an old man\u2019s seventy-fifth birthday, an aviation enthusiast offered to take him for a plane ride over the little West Virginia town where he spent all his life. The old man accepted the offer. Back on the ground, after circling over the town twenty minutes, his friend asked, \u201cWere you scared, Uncle Dudley?\u201d \u201cNo-o-o,\u201d was the hesitant answer. \u201cBut I never did put my full weight down.\u201d<\/p>\n
6930<\/b> Mistrusting Own Feet<\/b><\/p>\n
A man of Cheng was about to buy a pair of shoes. He measured the length of his feet but forgot to take the measurement with him when he went to the market place. \u201cI must go back and get my measurement,\u201d he said to the shoe man when he discovered his oversight and forthwith went back home. When he returned to the market, the market had already closed. \u201cWhy didn\u2019t you try the shoes with your feet?\u201d someone asked him. \u201cI\u2019d rather trust my measurement than my feet,\u201d was his reply. <\/p>\n
\u2014Chinese Humor<\/p>\n
6931<\/b> Anderson Who? <\/b><\/p>\n
A new resident of Greenwich, Conn., where Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. Anderson has a home, asked the Secretary, a friend of many years, if he could use his name as a credit reference. Anderson promptly gave his permission. But the newcomer\u2019s wife drew a complete blank when she gave Anderson\u2019s name to the credit manager of a Greenwich store. <\/p>\n
\u201cWho is he?\u201d asked the credit man. <\/p>\n
\u201cSecretary of the Treasury,\u201d said the lady. <\/p>\n
The credit manager still didn\u2019t unfreeze, and she added, \u201cMr. Anderson is also a director of the Greenwich Trust Company.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, that\u2019s different,\u201d he exclaimed. \u201cWhy didn\u2019t you say so in the first place!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Washington Post<\/i><\/p>\n
6932<\/b> Reinsurance Cartel<\/b><\/p>\n
One of the most influential yet least-known groups of international interests is the reinsurance cartel, the business in which a direct insurance company safeguards itself against huge single losses by dividing large policies among reinsurance companies which in turn split them up among similar firms and so on ad infinitum. For instance, in Paris, the payment of an $8,000,000 fire insurance claim to a department store revealed that the risk had been distributed among some 400 companies in more than 50 countries. <\/p>\n
\u2014Selected<\/p>\n
6933<\/b> The God Who Is Enough<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2019Tis far, far better to let Him choose<\/p>\n
The way that we should take;<\/p>\n
If only we leave our lives to Him<\/p>\n
He will guide without mistake<\/p>\n
We, in our blindness, would never choose<\/p>\n
A pathway dark and rough, <\/p>\n
And so we should ever find in Him, <\/p>\n
\u201cThe God Who Is Enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
6934<\/b> John Franklin\u2019s Last Journey<\/b><\/p>\n
Sir John Franklin lived an exciting life of adventure in the British Navy, which took him to many parts of the world. As a signal midshipman in the Battle of Trafalgar, he transmitted the memorable message from the flagship, \u201cEngland expects every man to do his duty.\u201d He was a devout Christian and found great strength in reading the Bible. His men said they would rather have him hold a service than most ministers. <\/p>\n
In 1845 he was put in command of two ships to look for a passage across the polar seas. The last communication from them came through their contact with a whaling ship in Baffin Bay. <\/p>\n
Many expeditions were made in the next ten years to learn the fate of Sir John Franklin\u2019s ships. Pieces of equipment found on beaches told of shipwreck in the icy seas. One of the books was Sir John Franklin\u2019s Bible with the following verses underlined: \u201cIf I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me\u201d (Psalm 139:9, 10). There was also a book of devotions with a page turned down at the verse: \u201cFear not \u2026 When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee\u201d (Isa. 43:1, 2). <\/p>\n
\u2014Free Methodist<\/p>\n
6935<\/b> Hope is Yit Good<\/b><\/p>\n
On November 18, 1559, when Protestantism in Scotland had reached its lowest ebb, Scottish Reformer John Knox wrote two letters, one to Sir William Cecil, secretary of Queen Elizabeth, and the other to Mrs. Anna Lock of London. In the letter to Cecil he set forth most accurately the state of affairs in Scotland, and pointed out that to human eyes disaster stared at the Protestants around every corner. But to Mrs. Lock he had the following to say:<\/p>\n
\u201cLest that the rumors of our trubles truble you above measure, dear Sister, I thought good in these few words to signifie unto you, that our esperance [hope] is yit good in our God, that He, for his great name\u2019s sake, will give such success to this interprise, as nather sall these whome he hath appointed to sigh in this be utterlie confounded; neither yet that our enemies sall have occasion to blaspheme his veritie, nor yet triumph over us in the ende.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Christianity Today<\/i><\/p>\n
6936<\/b> Message From The Robins<\/b><\/p>\n
A Canadian pastor friend, in a period of great despondency, received the help he needed from reading the following delightful, true incident. The local parks commission had been ordered to remove the trees from a certain street which was to be widened. As they were about to begin, the foreman and his men noticed a robin\u2019s nest in one of the trees and the mother robin sitting on the nest. The foreman ordered the men to leave the tree until later. <\/p>\n
Returning, they found the nest occupied by little wide-mouthed robins. Again they left the tree. When they returned at a later date they found the nest empty. The family had grown and flown away. But something at the bottom of the nest caught the eye of one of the workmen\u2014a soiled, little white card. When he had separated it from the mud and sticks, he found that it was a small Sunday school card and on it the words, \u201cWe trust in the Lord our God\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Albert Mygatt<\/p>\n
6937<\/b> Epigram On Trust<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them. <\/p>\n
\u2022 A radio announcer once asked Leo Durocher, manager of the New York Giants, \u201cBarring the unforeseen, Leo, will your club get the pennant?\u201d Back came Durocher\u2019s reply, \u201cThere ain\u2019t gonna be no unforeseen.\u201d<\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Belief ; Salvation-Assurance .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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