. The gate beautiful. r. Instantly Saulsaw that Jesus was no impostor, but the Sonof God. He accepted him now as the that moment Jesus took the supremeplace in Sauls life. The stone which thebuilders rejected became the head of the cor-[185] Cl^e (0ate Beautiful ner, the glory of his life, the hope of his soul. They only misunderstand Christ who think he is not all they need. Your life will always be incomplete, unfinished, until Christ is received into his own place in it. [ 186 ] ^nUct J^ecUneD [187] / would have gone; God bade me stay; I would have ivorked; God bade me
. The gate beautiful. r. Instantly Saulsaw that Jesus was no impostor, but the Sonof God. He accepted him now as the that moment Jesus took the supremeplace in Sauls life. The stone which thebuilders rejected became the head of the cor-[185] Cl^e (0ate Beautiful ner, the glory of his life, the hope of his soul. They only misunderstand Christ who think he is not all they need. Your life will always be incomplete, unfinished, until Christ is received into his own place in it. [ 186 ] ^nUct J^ecUneD [187] / would have gone; God bade me stay; I would have ivorked; God bade me broke my will from day to day, He read my yearnings unexpressed,And said them nay. Now I would stay; God bids me go :Noiu I would rest; God bids me work. He breaks my heart, tossed to and fro,My soul is wrung with doubts that lurk And vex it so. I go, Lord, where tJwu sendest rne ; Day after day I plod and n^oU :But, Christ my God, when will it be That I may let alone my toil,And rest in thee? [188] CHAPTER FOURTEENTH. T seems strange to have Godrefuse service oiFered to had been king for anumber of years and hadbuilt for himself a house ofcedar. One day as he sat inhis luxurious home, a shadow fell over began to feel a sense of shame as hethought of the fine house he had built forhimself, and then, in contrast, thought of theweather-beaten tent in which the ark of Godwas dwelling. He felt that a dwelling placeshould be provided for the holy ark at leastas costly and as beautiful as the house inwhich he himself was get a lesson right here for ourselves. Weought not to think of our own comfort andthen give no thought to God and his is no word of Scripture which forbidsus to live comfortably ourselves. But when[189] Ci^e (Kate iseatttiful we are able to do well for ourselves, we maynot rob God, nor stint his service. A houseof cedar for our own home, and an old tat-tered tent for God is not fit, not worthy. Jobspeaks deprecatingly of eating o
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