LIFE’S DISTURBANCES

HH, Sir Godfrey Gregg D.Div

“And the same time there arose no small stir about that way.” Acts 19:23

It will be a significant and encouraging sign, if in connection with my life, there should arise a great disturbance about the Way.

It will prove that my Christianity is thorough-going. It is not merely a convenient and conventional profession. It is a deep and vital experience of my soul. It has altered the current of my history. It has transformed the character of my being. It draws sharp, decided, distinct — the line of cleavage between what I was and what I am. It is so unmistakable that it attracts notice, and excites wonder, and awakens dislike.

It will prove, moreover, that my Christianity is public-spirited. I am not content when all is well with the little world which is myself. I travel out in thought and longing and prayer and effort to reach the greater world outside — the neighbors round about me, the town where I live, the country of which I am a citizen, the whole round earth, east and west and north and south.

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And it will prove that my Christianity is aggressive. It cannot meet an idolatry, a sin, without condemning and opposing it. It is salt, with a certain biting forcefulness about it. It is light shining into the dark places, revealing the ugly sinfulness of the world around me.

This is the Christianity which is greatly needed — but which is sure to encounter tribulation. Let me make very sure that it is mine.