“What wouldst Thou have me do, O Lord?
Each morn and eve we seem to say,
And He gives back no doubtful word:
‘Remember, little child, all day,
Thine early vows, the hallow’d wave
Where Jesus first His blessing gave:
There stoop, there cleanse thee every hour;
Christ’s laver hath refreshing power.’”
Christian faith is the committing of the life into the hands of Christ. It is spoken of in the Scriptures as the depositing of all life’s interests with One who is surely able to keep them safely until the day of final revealing. The thought is very beautiful. Our life is hid with Christ in God.
Then, there is something else to correspond with this. There is another deposit. Christ commits something to us, something which we are to keep and care for and use, bringing it home and restoring it to Him at last unblemished, unwasted. In one of St. Paul’s letters to Timothy we have an illustration: “Hold the pattern of sound words which thou hast heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. That good thing which was committed unto thee guard through the Holy Ghost.” Timothy was a young minister; and St. Paul, who was his spiritual father, and had taught him the truths of the gospel, is exhorting him to be careful and faithful in his holy trust.
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