A Happy New Year to all our readers. May we help to make millions happy this year by giving them the Word of God.
“If God is not for us we are Lost”
Homeward bound! but steaming over mine-strewn seas, and in danger of the torpedo of the submarine. The periscope of one of the dreaded ships has been seen, and the imminent peril of its presence is apparent to all. One soldier says to another, as they stand together, “If God is not for us we are lost.” They felt that only He who holds the seas in the hollow of His hand could save them now. He did deliver in His own wonderful way.
What a lesson for us. How true these words are of us: “If God is not for us we are lost.”
For our salvation. No one can save us but the Son of God. Traveling “o’er life’s solemn main,” we are in danger of shipwreck every moment. Storms may engulf us, hidden perils of unbelief may be the devil’s torpedoes to sink us. Is God for us? If He is, nothing else matters. If we trust Him whose mighty power rules sea and land, we are safe. We can cry in the hour of soul danger, “Jesus saves! Jesus saves!” We can sing in the face of danger and of coming death:—
Jesus! lover of my soul,
Let me to Thy bosom fly,
While the waters near me roll,
While the tempest still is high;
Hide me, O my Saviour, hide,
‘Till the storm of life be past;
Safe into the haven guide,
Oh receive my soul at last.
And He will.