Subjects of the King!
For the Lord
is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.
Isa. 33:22.
This morning
[EARLY MORNING DIARY ENTRY, SEPT. 5, 1900.] my soul is filled with praise and
thanksgiving to God from whom come all our mercies and blessings. The Lord is
good, and His mercies endure forever. I will praise Him who is the light of my
countenance and my God. He is the source of all efficiency and power. Why do we
not praise Him by speaking words of hope and comfort to others? Why are our
lips so silent? Speech is a gift of Heaven, and it should be used in sounding
forth the praises of Him who hath called us out of darkness into His marvelous
light. . . .
O how much good
would be accomplished were God honored by all who profess to be Christians! . .
. The Light of the world is shining upon men in richest blessing. Every
provision has been made for the supplying of our temporal and spiritual needs.
Yet how little thanksgiving the Giver receives! . . .
In receiving
Christ as our Captain there must be a complete surrender of the human will to
the divine will. The Lord can work out His will through those who have made
this surrender, for they give prompt and cheerful obedience to His commands.
God expects us to obey without questioning. We are to ask, "Lord, what
wilt thou have me to do?" Then, though the command may be as stern and
startling as that given to Abraham, we are to obey. Abraham's soul was rent
asunder by the command, "Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou
lovest, and offer him for a sacrifice on one of the mountains which I will tell
thee of" (Gen. 22:2). But he did not hesitate to obey.
All our
activities, all our business arrangements, should be in perfect accord with the
Lord's commands. The laws of God's kingdom must be obeyed by the subjects of
that kingdom. Our zeal for the advancement of God's kingdom is to mark us as
faithful subjects of the cross of Christ. God can trust as His representatives
those who implicitly obey Him.
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