Moments With The Master

Moments with the Master John Lewis Sandlin MING H. REVELL COMPANY To my mother whose love inspires me to draw nearer to the light. COPYRIGHT MCMLXI BY FLEMING H. KEVELL COMPANY All rights reserved Westwood, New Jersey Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 61-9242 Printed in the United States of America 1.1 Except where marked otherwise, Scripture quotations in this volume are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyrighted 1946 and 1952. Preface The ebb and flow of daily living, the changing scenes of time, remind us to take notice of the vocabulary of spiritual life the language of the heart. Midst our busy lives today we can find our wistfulness put to flight by the spiritual yearning of our souls for we know the Father who satisfies our spiritual needs. We are not cast adrift upon seas of purposeless existence. We are children of the God who seeks us for His own, drawing us to Himself by the cords of love. When through our sense of need we find His fellowship, we renew our spiritual strength. This book is a devotional study of words significant and relevant to our sense of need. It seeks to lift up in tele graphic style the tidings, the message for every age and clime. In the vocabulary of our language, some words are variable in meaning their definitions may be different a thousand years hence. But the author believes that those contained in this little book will linger in our spiritual treasury to become a legacy to our children and our chil drens children. It is my hope that these meditations may underline a portion of our spiritual vocabulary. OHN LEWIS SANDLIN Nashville, Tennessee, 15 2 Contents 28 29 30 31 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39,40 41 42 43 44 45 49 50CONTENTS 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 84 85 85 86 87 88 89 90,91 92 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 CONTENTS 115 116 117 118 123 124 125 Scripture Index 126 Parti RESOURCES ANTICIPATION I will trust, and will not be afraid . . . Isaiah 12 2. The foretaste of an experience brings delight or dread. Delight in the experience adds wonder to our confidence in the event or result expected. Dread brings upsets that distort appreciation and blight the confidence. The shadow of dread makes one unwell or destroys the appetite sometimes one becomes inwardly irritable or unpleasant in his relationships because of dread or forebod ings of the future. This is not the proper mood of the Christian personality. Fear prevents intelligent apprecia tion of any situation. Anticipation is necessary to the success of every per son who worships Almighty God, for as we go into the sanctuary we carry with us the attitude of expectation. We go to find fellowship with God and with the mind attuned to the atmosphere of fellowship, we find Confidence in Gods grace Reliance upon Gods power Renewed hope in the midst of living Undaunted faith in Gods justice Undoubted knowledge of His veracity Unlimited resources for our work. The acceleration of life depends largely upon the ex hilarating anticipation of new spiritual experience. Eternal God, who art our Father, may we approach the altar of worship in the spirit of expectation and assurance. Renew our minds with the knowledge of the purity of Thy love. Fill our lives with the attitude of expectation, anticipation of Thy justice through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. 10