Show Abundant Living You Are Safe in Gods God's s Watch Care By Br E E. E Stanley Jones Jone Eph 21 I Thep 24 Phil 13 The shop gift lady of whom we have written runs the doctors' doctors exchange of the he town Sick people call up art an invalid to find out where to get a doctor When I 1 asked her what was the central thought of the year she replied Gods watch Think of an invalids invalid's choosing Gods watch- watch care as her central thanksgiving If God cared then why did He not heal her herVe We Ve have said that God heals in eight great ways through the surgeon the physician climate mental suggestion scientific nutrition deliverance from underlying un un- derl ing fears resentments self-centered- self ness and the direct operation of the Spirit of God and through the tion Lion Whatever He Hc does docs not cure through the thc first seven ways He Hc will cure curc through the thc eighth eighth the the resurrection To some He the ministry of suffering until the day of the final cuic the thc the resurrection resurrection-in in inthe the meantime giving them power not merely to bear the thc suffering but to use it The watch care of which Gods God's noblewoman noblewoman noblewoman noble noble- woman spoke was watch care over her spirit that her spirit should remain unspoiled unspoiled unspoiled un un- un- un spoiled and sound Healed at the thc heart she could say Let the world come on Sound at heart she was ready for any any- thing Gods God's watch care may be particularly particularly exercised in producing inner attitudes attitudes atti attl- tudes for in our inner attitudes the battle of life is lost or won A lady arose in one of our meetings meeting's and said aid that the doctors had given iven her six months to live live cancer cancer of the lungs At AtI I J r r. r first she said I 1 was bitter and rebellious rebel rebel- how Hous lious how lious-how how could I Ilea leave ve my children and I my husband Then I said to myself If It ItI I have only six months to live am I going to leave my children a heritage e of defeat and frustration Is that the last thing they will remember about me Or will they have a heritage c of calm taint poise and victory I decided I would leave them a Christian heritage of victory Ever since I surrendered my rebellion and bitterness there ther has been calm poise and even joy The fact is Ive I've gained 10 pounds Gods God's watch-care watch was over her spirit that spirit that was intact Nothing else really mattered O 0 God watch over my spirit and keep me sound there For if I sag in spirit all life sags with it If my spirit holds up everything holds up with it Then help me to live with abundance so that it will not matter much what happens on the outside Into Thy hands I 1 commend my spirit this day day keep keep it sound and sweet and gay g-ay in spite of Amen Front From From the book Abundant Living published by Abingdon Cokesbury Press Copyright |