THE QUIET HOUR
THE BLESSED SAINT CERTAINTY.
With out any leaning Homeward the writer feels that he would
like to have a I’rodestant calendar of Saints with Saint Certainty’s
name enrolled upon it.
Coming from a study of the life of tin* greatest of the Apos- i
ties, there is one fact which shines out more luminously than any
other as that checkered life-story is recalled. Whatever else Paul |
was, or was not, Paul was always Sure. You may scan liis life and j
letters with microscopic scruntiny and you will find no trace of
wavering or uncertain in his faith.
He knew.
The distinguishing trait of his faith was that he was sure.
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The most striking characteristics of the present age is that it
is not sure.
It is not even sure of its doubts. The unbelief of today isnot
atheism—which definitely declares that there is no God; it is ag
nosticism, which, in a spirit of intellectual flabbiness says, “I
don’t know whether there is a God; I can’t know whether there
is a God.” It is not even certain of its uncertainties.
And what is true of avowed unbelief, is true of a great mul
titude of those who avow belief —they are not sure—a puff of re
ligious freakishness, a zephyr of spiritual hysteria, will make them
lose hteir religious equilibrium and topple them over into all sort
of fantastic absurdities and crude substitutes for Christianity.
There are multitudes— even in the churches—who, if they
were strictly honest with themselselves might adopt the prayer of
the skeptical soldier dying on the battlefield who in answer to the
faithful chaplains urgent solicitation that he send up a prayer,
prayed; “Oh God, if there be a God. save my soul if 1 have
a soul.
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Over against all this reed-shaken-by the wind religion, Paul’s
‘‘I know,” sounds forth like the booming of the suurf at Gib
raltar.
He was sure—‘‘dead sure”—of God, and of the fulfilment of
his sure word of promise.
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While, iu many respects, John the Baptist, in his sturdy tliis
one-thing-I-do attitude, reminds you of Paul, there was one point
in the careers of the two men in which they stand forth in mark
ed contrast. Both were in prison, and their long confinement
told upon them until it hardly seemed longer endurable. John
seems to have permitted a question to creep into his heart at
this point; and he sent his desciples to the Christ with the query;
‘‘After all, are you truly the Christ?” lie still had faith in his
friends, but he seems to have wavered for a moment in the cer
tainty which, before, and after this one lapse of time shone out
unfliclieringly.
Paul's imprisonment reverse 1 1 his experience: his faith in
man was staggered, but his sure confidence in God never fluttered
a pul se. He said, in that pathetic last letter to Timothy, ‘‘All |
men forsook me, notwithstanding the Lord stood with me..
With reference to the men upon whom he leaned lie could e
cho Burn’s plaint;
For, O, mankind is unco’ weak
And little to be trusted.
#T?If self the xvavring ballance shake
.> ’Tis rarely to be trusted.
But he was so sure of Christ that he could rise to that wonder
ful climax of certainty in the eighth chapter of Romans, “Who
shall separate us from tin* love of Christ? Shall tribulation,
or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or
sword. Nay, in all these tilings we are more than conquerors
through him that loved us. For 1 am persuaded that neihter
death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities nor powers,
nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor
any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of
God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” And again he says with
that ring of triumphant certainty so charachteristic of his unebm
ded vision of tilings eternal; “I know whom I have believed, and
am persuaded that he is aide to keep that J have committed to
him against that day.” There is no room for questioning that
the blessed Saint Certainty was Paul’s patron saint.
No doubt throngs of Christians will “get to glory” who lack
the lofty serenity of this unclouded faith, but they need
lessly multiply iheir spiritual discomforts cn the way.
They have ample foundation upon which to build a sky
scraper, and they merely build a squat, one-storied shack. Paul
selected and clamped together the massiv rocks of confidence in
Christ, and they were as firm us the foundations of some towering
light house that laughs at the tempest’s futile attempts to
dislodge it. And then, upon this rock-base, In: reared his faith
a faith so firm that no storms of earth or hell could move it.
And we may do the same. That old hymn sings it;
“.My faith is fixed on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness.
On Christ the solid rock I stand,
All other ground is sinking sand.’
God is willing, lie lias made adequate provision for this kind
of certainty. Ilis promises are countless, and none of them have
ever been broken.
The writer remembers how, when a lad, watching a magician
for the first time, as, apparently he plucked silver coins from the
air at his will, In' returned to his home making up his mind that
if the air was full of them he would have some too. lie soon
learned, of course, that it was merely a trick of seeing.
But this is no illusion.
All round about God’s children the riches of his grace are a
waiting faith’s appropriation, and he who will may draw upon the
Master for unlimited supplies.
And he who simply takes Gods’ word for all this and rests
in it, may go forth with brow serene and heart of oak, strong be
cause he is sure—not of himself, not for a moment:—not of circum
stances, they shift and melt away like sand dunes before the encr
oaching tide;—but sure that “He—whose word can ne’er be brok
en’ will never leave him nor forsake him—even to the end of the
world.—J. II. Bomberger.
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