The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1902-12-19


knows when the crisis is on. He sees
with clear vision the dreadful armed
hosts at your rear threatening you
with destruction. His judgment is
unerring. He knows exactly the best
time to strike. Stand fast, wait OF
your Captain, oh, soul! David prays:
LET none that wait on Thee be
ashamed" And in all the trying
times of DaYid's life he never was
ashamed when he waited on the
Lord. He met the crises by waiting.
And in his psalms of praise and
thanksgiving he exclaims over and
over again: "Wait on the Lord; be
of good courage, and He shall
strengthen thine heart: wait, l say,
| on the Lord"
Have you failed when the crisis has
come into your life? 1t is almost GER
tain to have been because you did not
wait. Something must be done, you
thought. That was what the terrified
children of Israel thought. They
wanted to do something. they did not
know what, but they felt it strong
upon them that something must be
done, and that right quickly. Common
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taken at once in the face of the awful
| crisis. They rallied on Moses and
counted him for fool. But, oh, glor-
| iOus victory in the Lord; he knew that
God would not fail him, and that the
| thing for him to do until God spoke
was to stand fast, to wait. The thing
| to do always when darkness is about
you, and you know moi which way to
| turn, is to wait. 1t is folly to take
action, to move, until God says: go
| forward" Then the strong east wind
of His providences Will drive chan
mel through the deepest waters ever
to be met with, and you will pass over
| to the other side dry shod and your
| enemies will be swallowed in the re-
| turning waters. Oh, it is glorious to
wait on the Lord! You have to do il
if you are going to successfully meet
| the crises of life. Don't move until you
| hear Gods voice speak He will not
| let your ear be deceived if you wail
on Him. You will know when the
command to go forward comes. If
! you are uncertain as to the voice and
your heart is eager to do Gods will,
| you may always be sure that it is not
| Gods voice that is speaking to you.
! But if you are waiting in faith on Him,
| faiths ear Will hear the blessed voice
of God, the heart will leap with respon-
sive JOY and the feet eagerly move in
| the direction which God indicates, even
| if it is right into the black waters of
Red Sea.
The Glory of Crises.-And right at
! this point will be realized the glory
| of the crisis in your life. As you take
| the step forward at His command God
VIII divide the waters and the way will
! be made plain. There is Divine glory
| in every crisis in which God has His
way and the soul waits on Him. And
the glory is realized at the point of
| obedience. Patient waiting and
prompt obedience Will make every
dark crisis brilliant with the glory of
| God. There was the magnificent glory
of the King of Egypt in his palaces,
and his temples, and his pyramids. and
his great and powerful country. There
was the commanding glory of his great
army, as it came laundering along;
! the glittering chariots flashing in the
| sunshine. the richly-capa risOned
horses skimming the ground as they
rushed onward; the strong warriors
| equipped for the battle riding conf
IDENTIFY. That seemed to be all the
glory there was that day to the
affrighted Israelites. Even the maies-
tic cloudy pillar of Gods presence lost
its glory in their eyes. and to be slaves
to the Egyptians was better than dy-
ing with God in the wilderness. But
! God never lets the soul that is follow
| ing Him die in the wilderness. Just at
the point where the soul feels that
death is upon it, God sends deliver
ance and the glory that had appeared
in the ranks of the enemy disappears
beneath the waves of Gods Judgment,
and His glory bursts forth from the
issues of the crisis which the soul had
just been facing. And the soul does
not know what the glory of the Lord
is until it has seen it flash out of the
crisis to which He has led, and over
which He has control.
There are little crises and big crises
in every life. The little ones are met
with every day. The big ones come
when some important issue is at stake
The little ones if successfully met with
prepare one to meet the big ones when
they come. The sleeping conscience
and careless mind that miss the glory
in the little crises pave the way for de-
feat in the important crises when they
come. 1t is magnificent to be-
hold a brave soul like Moses meet
ing the mighty crisis. To see him
stand calmly in the face of panic and
opposition and ridicule and bitter de-
nunciation, and patiently wait for God.
He couldn't tell how God was going to
send deliverance. He could not answer
the forcible and plausible arguments
brought by the prominent men about
him. He could only answer: "Stand
still and see the salvat ton of the
Lord" And when God got the people
calm before Him and they were look
ing wholly to Him for deliverance,
then the glory of the crisis shone forth
and deliveTance was at hand. Oh, the
glory of the crises in which God has
His way! Oh, soul, would you see and
know that glory, and experience Gods
salvation? Then begin to-day to meet
the little crises with patient waiting
on God. while the way is dark and you
know not which way to turn. and then
when the voice of God tells you to go
forward, give prompt obedience. Then
the same glory which flashed over the
Red sea and led TO the victory of the
other shore will be shed abroad in
YOUR life. and your heart Will sing n
song of praise to God as Moses saug in
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