Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-01-24

fixed the text in
my mind and heart for the work and
need of the year. One day l was in
the office of Christian business man
and when he told me of his up-and-
down experiences and his fear of fail
ure l gave him this verse and asked
him to put it on his desk Before the
day was over 1 was engaging in per-
sonal work in an evangelistic meeting,
and to man who said he was afraid
to confess Christ for fear he could not
hold out, 1 said, Take Philippians lie,
and count on God holding out He
made the venture on faith, and finds
Christ meeting every need with suffi-
cient grace
How Can ! Get Through?
How many Christians are fearful
and doubtful, about the continuance
and completion of that new life which
began in them when they took Christ
as their Savior. To them the Christian
life is not only difficult, it is a daily
struggle, and daily fear of collapse
and defeat They began WELL but
something has hindered them, or they
stand in dread of some spiritual ca
lamity. Service for Christ is irksome
Prayer has little meaning and less
blessing or power. The Bible is neg
lected or forgotten. Joy has fed from
the soul, and gladness from the life.
Some days are bright and others
gloomy. Some days are happy, but on
others you wonder whether God is still
alive. You begin to question the real
1ty of your conversion, you wonder
how you will ever get through, and
you despair of winning heaven at last
Remember the assurance of the text
1t takes two to live the Christian life
Christ and the believer; and every day
you may have all of him you need
Always remember that the Christian
life is not a matter of attainment, but
obtainment-take it from Christ This
IS a truth that needs to be magnified.
When God moves into the heart of
man, and a man yields up his life to
the instruction and guidance of God,
God will take him through. There NAV
be disappointments- days when every
thing goes wrong; there may be temp
tatlons days when the devil presents
the strongest and most alluring ap-
peaIS to eye-gate or ear-gate or to
other avenues of the life, seeking to
get your consent to some enticement
and to bring you into subsection to the
powers of darkness; there will be DAYS
of sorrow-days when friends fail YOU
when loved ones leave you, when YOU
look into an open grace and reach out
after help; there will be days when |
you doubt-when- you think your |
Christian life is thing of no conse-
quence to yourself and no contribution |
to the cause of Christ or the coming
of his kingdom. But-and be sure of |
this-God will see that he wins in the |
end This is his will; this is what he |
loves to do; this is what he has begun |
IN you; and nothing is too hard for |
nlm-he will perfect it. Always he |
is working to perfect in us the very
image of Jesus Christ.
In all our need we may count upon
the persistence, patience and perfec-
ton of Christ's work
The AllSufficient Savior.
The text is also an evangel for the
sinner, and he who hesitates to begin
the Christian life may be assured here
ana now that he which hath begun !
viii perfect" All he waits for
is your faith. your surrender. your
obedience; then you will enter upon a
new year which by the grace of the
mighty God of Jacob will go on into
an eternal life, and this life is in his
Son. He says. My son. give me thine
heart" When you do that he viii
enter in and take possession of that
throne and from it rule every region
of the life just so far as you WELD II
to him. Do not hesitate to do it. You
viii ind Christ an all-suficient Savior.
AS your substitute he will deal with
the guilt of sin; as your Righteousness
ne viii deal with the defilement of
sin; and as your Lord he will deal
with the power of sin Nothing is too
hard for God
There is a three-fold card in the
New Year evangels l. Prophecv- I
Until the day of Christ'-when YOU {
will be complete in him. 2 Promise
He which hath begun a good work in |
you will perfect IT. God viii not rest
until his work is done; and when it is !
lone he will call it good g. Persua- l
'ion-.Being confident of this very q
hing" May you have the confidence {
which says. Il know when I have be +
feved, and am persuaded that he is {
lble to keep that which ! have com {
nitted unto him. against that day" I