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A Saviour Close By

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 3, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 43.

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A Saviour Close By

By H. E. Warner

By Mrs. H. E. Warner
“Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.” 1 Peter 5:7.
“Rejoice in the Lord alway; and again I say, Rejoice.” Phil. 4:4.
THE Lord is close by, at hand, within touch; don’t be anxious; “in nothing be anxious.” How can we be anxious within sight of Jesus?
“Yes, but where is He? How can I get at Him?” The Lord is at hand, close by. Not only at hand as to His second coming, but at hand to deliver, at hand to undertake, at hand to conquer, at hand always. “And again I say, Rejoice.”
“Rejoice?” says a poor, perplexed child of God, who has heard much of sanctification, and has sounded again and again the depths of his own heart to see if he can recognize it there; “rejoice when I can not be quite sure that I have surrendered myself to God? Rejoice while my burden seems always to be on the increase? Again and again I have given myself over to God, and I have thought I was in earnest, and yet I have found no difference in myself, and at last I have given it up.”
Dear brother or sister, where was Jesus all the time? When you surrendered yourself to Him, what did He do? Were you so occupied with the giving up of yourself that you never gave Him the credit of taking the gift you gave? In the giving of the gift, there must be two parties concerned; the one who gives, and the one who receives. Jesus’ own testimony of Himself is, “Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.” Did He break His word with you, or were you too busy to notice Him? He was at hand, close by. Tell Him that you take Him at His word, you believe He receives the offering; and then, “casting all your care upon Him,” the anxiety about your state will pass away. You will rejoice to be out of your own hands and into His; for He takes the care, the responsibility, and the keeping of all that we drop, into His hands.
Clintonville, Conn.