A TALL clock stands on the stair landing of our old home. It is an eight-day clock run by three heavy weights that hang on brass chains from the works. These weights run the clock, but they have to be lifted from time to time by the owner—a power outside of the clock.
So it is with the Christian. God uses the very weights of life to keep us running, but He must lift the weights from time to time to give us strength and courage to carry on for Him.
The sweet chimes of this clock ring through the home every quarter-hour, but they are especially homely and comforting when we wake and hear them in the still hours of the night. They remind us that the night is passing: morning will come. Then on the hour, the tolling of the clock tells the time. We may be like this clock, observing the time, making melody in our hearts to the Lord, and watching for His coming as the Morning Star, just before the break of day.
ML-12/20/1970