The King's Business

The King's Business

By E. T. Cassel

I am a stranger here, within a foreign land;

My home is far away, upon a golden strand;

Ambassador to be of realms beyond the sea,

I'm here on business for my King.

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This is the King's command: that all men everywhere,

Repent and turn away from sin's seductive snare;

That all who will obey with Him shall reign for aye,

And that's my business for my King.

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My home is brighter far than Sharon's rosy plain,

Eternal life and joy throughout its vast domain:

My Sovereign bids me tell how mortals there may dwell,

And that's my business for my King.

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Chorus

This is the message that I bring,

A message angels fain would sing:

"Oh, be ye reconciled,"

Thus saith my Lord and King,

"Oh, be ye reconciled to God."

The Anchor of the Soul

The Anchor of the Soul

"Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil" (Heb. 10:19). In all the troubles and changes which are part of this life, let us cast our anchor upward within the veil. Let us set our affection continually on things above, from whence also we look for the Savior.

On this side of the veil is time, and the curse, and sin and death. But, bless God, on that side of the veil is our great High Priest and our heavenly Father and joys that are everlasting. This hope that we have is able to presently pass within the veil where the Savior is. We are not speaking here of a "hope so" type hope, but of one that is sure and steadfast, being anchored within the veil, where Christ, our Forerunner and High Priest, has entered (cf. Heb. 6:20).

For those who are willing to deny themselves and take up their cross and follow the Savior, setting their affection on things above, the consideration of both the new covenant and of our great High Priest will afford them a strong consolation, enabling them to make their calling and election sure (II Pet. 1:10). —Albert G. Stoner, Jr.

The Lord's Table

The Lord's Supper. Emile Cailiet, a converted agnostic doctor of philosophy in Paris, in his book, Journey into Light, which recounts his discovery of Christ, says the journey to salvation must ultimately lead to the Lord's table. "It is there the luminosity of the Presence comes into full glow. Indeed, the Lord's table becomes a unique medium of His Presence to those who partake of the bread and wine, thereby being incorporated into His body, and showing His death and His coming in remembrance of His triumphal sacrifice." The Lord's supper consists of:

1. Upward look to God--"He gave thanks."

2. Backward look to Christ--"in remembrance of Him."

3. Inward look to self--"examine oneself."

4. Outward look to the world--"show His death."

5. Forward look to heaven--"till He come."

--Donald A. Nash, "Cup and Loaf," The Voice, Kentucky Christian College, Grayson, KY, May-June 1982, p.2

Your Work of Faith

Your Work of Faith

"Remembering without ceasing your work of faith . . ." (I Th. 1:3).

"There is the whole of the thorny subject of the relation of faith and works packed into a nutshell. It is exactly what James said, and it is exactly what a better than James said. When the Jews came to Him with their externalism, and thought that God was to be pleased by a whole rabble of separate good actions, and so said, 'What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?' Jesus answered, Neyer mind about works. 'This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent' (Jn. 6:28-29), and out of that will come all the rest. That is the mother-tincture; everything else will flow from that. So Paul says, 'Your work of faith.' Does your faith work? Perhaps I should ask other people rather than you. Do men see that your faith works; that its output is different from the output of men who do not possess 'like precious faith'? Ask yourselves the question, and God help you to answer it." --Alexander Maclaren