GOD BE OUR ANCHOR

Knit your thoughts to the things which are of God; bind yourself to that strong anchor which never gives—

The Anchor of Faith and Trust in God.

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We are more precious than we can understand.

And so God's will is being done, and we—like instruments—are, in His sight, far more precious than we can understand, but that too will be made good in the happy days to come.

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Fix your heart's desire on finding God—Finding God!

Fix your heart's desire on finding God—Finding God! If only we could realise for an instant, the possession, the power, and the sacred opportunities held out by trying to find God. 

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At the Feet of the Saviour

Grasp the need—the desperate need—for humanity, as a whole, to lay self at the Feet of the Saviour, and to give itself wholly into His sacred care.

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Make a stand for the God that is within you.

Take a definite step, make a stand for the God that is within you.

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Remember the quiet call of The Spirit.

Remember that the quiet call of The Spirit is away and beyond all the world's side. It is, as it were, a single golden coin against a mass of coppers.

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The Voice of God

Here, on the earth side, we get the bulk, we get what seems to our physical mind overwhelmingly important and tangible and real. 

And on the other, just faith, faith within, that we have heard the Voice of God.

Sand dunes in the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia. Older dunes are reddish and larger, newer dunes are yellow-brown.

Shorten the road of material experience.

Shorten the road of material experience. Enter into the shining path of spiritual experience. And then, on looking back, you will smile at the gifts of the world.

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Focus your mind on God.

Focus your mind on God because if you do that you are bound to work well. The spirit within knows no second best, it only knows that which represents completeness—completeness, the finished task done to the best of your ability.

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Build for God.

Work and effort and strain—these are the bricks of that foundation on which we can stand and call to the world. See to it that your bricks are in their right places; see to it too that in placing your own, you do not disturb those of another; see to it that the harmony between all is complete in the wish to build for God. And if the wish is there, you will find, in such a wonderful way, that you have built better than you knew.

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I belong to joy—the joy which is of God!

Watch the outposts of your life; watch, and be on your guard against those subtle forces out to hinder the Spirit—sadness and depression. They come when you are feeling overweary with the strain. They come at the end of a long day. They come when the body is weakest and frailest.

Be on your guard, and watchful of the outposts, and when the first sign, or first hint, of their presence is felt, say to yourself—I belong to joy—the joy which is of God!

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Step forward into the revelation of the love of God.

Sadness is hallowed in one sense—because of what it has produced, what it has worked out in the physical mind. But once its work is done—and it was only a test sent to prove whether you were strong enough to emerge from it into joy—once its work is done, you do not belong to it.

You belong to that perfect happiness, that perfect harmony; sadness and depression and loneliness are of the shadows only. Step forward into the light of understanding—into the revelation of the love of God.

See to it then that you put on your strongest armour to fight the enemies that would approach. And if you call upon the Saviour, you will find that happiness in its most beautiful form—contentment—will enter and remain a guest until it is turned into something stronger still.

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It is cause and effect right through.

When we think a sad thought, we are adding to the sorrow of the world. When we think a glad thought, then, instantly, we are adding to the joy of the world. When we think brave thoughts, then, unconsciously to themselves, the weak ones square their shoulders. When we think a holy thought, the Spirit of God within us rises and dominates that which is mundane.

It is cause and effect right through. We can build or we can destroy. We can add a link or we can break one that has already been put together by much effort. We can lift up another or we can push them one pace further down. We can be an instrument of God or we can—unwillingly though it may be—we can be used by the shadows to strike that which is Love itself.

And so joy hides its head until we recognise that we belong to the light, and not to darkness, to freedom, and not to captivity, to peace, and not to strife, to gladness, and not to sorrow.

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It is a like a big school.

You know, it is like a big school—you say to one—That is your little bit, to another—That is yours. There is always the lazy child and there is always the one who will work; again, the one who can be very busy when the mood takes her and the one who thinks tomorrow will do just as well. Children in a school—only, in regard to life, it is a bigger and more important thing altogether.

We sometimes wonder that an extra burden seems to be put on one who does not appear to have sufficient strength to carry it. We all feel like that sometimes—but, in God's name, we find the strength to carry us through.

We must all remember that we are chosen stewards in the household of the King and because that post of honour is ours, then, not only will the King see to it that we have the tools with which to work, but also the strength to make that which appears so difficult, possible to accomplish.

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Go forward in hope.

Go forward in hope—in hope and joyful anticipation that the grey days will be turned to those of sunshiny blue.

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Start to climb the ladder of spiritual thought.

Get down from the heights of physical thinking and start to climb the ladder of spiritual thought. See in your daily lives the opportunity, not of startling the world—for the world forgets you tomorrow—but of creating something, which will stand for all time, something which will make others say—There goes a good steward!

Comprehensive as the spheres may be, stupendous as the marvels to be unrolled before your wondering eyes, I say that only are these things there by the quietly sustained effort of those doing their daily tasks—the monotony of life transformed into the radiance of the Spirit by God.

Yes; you see now that life, the trivial round, is a bigger thing than you thought, and I want you to bear in mind always that by doing your task as well as you can, you are also seeking God—seeking God and finding Him too if the heart is kept right with Him.

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What is man that Thou art mindful of him?

What is man that Thou art mindful of him?

In the sight of the Father, the individual soul stands pre-eminent over everything else—and all the other things that we could think of are simply created as a background for our evolving souls.

MAN

Lord, what is man that Thou art mindful of him;

And the son of man that Thou visitest him?

Psalm, VIII, 4

Each day works out its part of the pattern.

It is a stupendous thought. It makes one pause—life, whether here, or in any other state, is not a thing to be got through and forgotten as quickly as may be; it is not a thing that is to be taken in the easiest way possible; nor is it given to us to despise or to maltreat. Each day works out its part of the pattern, each night sees the weaving in. And more than that—hourly, minutely—the spirit demands an account of the personal self for this and for that.

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Read between the lines.

Read between the lines. If we hear of a father who thinks so much about his children, who has created so many attractions and diversions and exercises for their minds so that they might never be dull and never seek another companion—we would say at once—what a wonderful thing to have a father's love like that! With us, all this is applicable exactly? We—all—are in that happy position of having a Father who thinks that nothing could be too beautiful, too wonderful for His children.

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We shall be as One!

Be certain that God's way of answering those words—What is man? is simplicity itself. He says—Man not only belongs to Me, but is of Me, and in time to come shall be so linked to Me again, that we shall be as One!

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