| The Joy of Service |
Chapter 5 |
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How simple this teaching makes all life if only we learn the lesson! Our soul’s salvation, the keeping of our life in the midst of this world’s dangers and enmities, the outworking of all experiences, the direction of our affairs, the adjustment of all wrongs and iniquities, the overruling of all evil, so as to bring us home at last to glory without blemish, – all this is to be committed to Christ, left absolutely, without question, doubt, or fear, in His strong and skilful hands. Our one duty is always to do God’s will as it is made know to us, and then leave all the tangles with Christ. In one of the Psalms the lesson is put very clearly:–
“Commit thy way unto the Lord;
Trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.
And He shall make thy righteousness to go forth as
The light,
And thy judgment as the noon-day.”
Then, St. Paul’s words of confidence as assurance come in again with wondrous strengthening for our hearts: “I know Him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is able to guard that which I have committed unto Him against that day.” Thus assured, faith can sing:–
“I will not doubt, though all my ships at sea
Come drifting home with broken masts and sails;
I will believe the Hand which never fails
From seeming evil worketh good for me;
And though I weep because those sails are tattered,
Still will I cry, while my best hopes lie shattered,
‘I trust in Thee.’”
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