Every Life a Surrendered Life
Every one lives a surrendered life. But not every one has surrendered to Christ; and those who have not have surrendered to the devil. For no one ever does his own unbiased, unmastered will; Christ and Satan are incessantly contending for the control of that will, and when Christ does not win, Satan does. It is like a rowboat in the center of a swiftly moving stream: it must either go with the stream or resist the stream all the time; there is no instant when it is free to do neither. It follows that either Christ or Satan is using us all the time to do his work. Just as Christ uses a life that is wholly surrendered to Him to give of Himself through that life to others, so the devil uses a life that yields to him to give of himself through that life to others. It is an awful thought. But we can not escape it. Satan enters one life through another. We bring Satan or Christ to our fellows all the time. And even we who are Christ's can so yield ourselves to Satan that Satan can use us in a death-dealing way. How he must rejoice in the opportunity to injure not only us but others when we fling open the doors of our life to him! With most Christians it is a fact that they are sometimes communicating Christ, sometimes Satan, to those near them. With a few, it is always and only Christ. Why not with all of us?—S. S. Times.