Wednesday, July 1, 2015

God Is Faithful. Serve Him Faithfully.




"Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men; knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance.  It is the Lord Christ whom you serve."   Colossians 3:23-24

Martha Becker, pictured above, lived to age 102 and met Jesus face to face just last year.  She attended Moody Bible Institute and graduated in 1941.  She served as a missionary in Ecuador for nearly 30 years.  She remained diligent in honoring the Lord, including teaching Sunday School, well into her 90s.  

She recalls the following from her time at Moody, "For chapel time, the faculty had the tradition of sitting in front on the stage in one long row. We saw those men of God who were devoted to the Lord. A thousand or more students singing our school song, 'God Bless the School that D.L.Moody Founded,' was enough to make anybody resolve to be loyal to that school.  But when we sang, 'Great Is Thy Faithfulness' and saw the writer of that music, Mr. William Runyan, an old man by then, smile with satisfaction, we sang all the harder, and the building couldn't have contained a greater song and its singers than that."

Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow, 
Blessings all mine with ten thousand beside.
Great Is Thy Faithfulness, morning by morning new mercies I see.  
All I have needed, Thy hand hath provided.  Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me.

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