when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoils, they found among them in abundance both riches and precious jewels, more than they could carry; and they were three days gathering the spoil, it was so much."

So God delivers when fully trusted-perfectly, fully, even beyond anything we have asked or thought; adding good which we have never dreamed of, as though to give double assurance of His favor and love to any who will trust Him. This is the “salvation of the Lord” when we "stand still."

We must learn that the time of help coming to us is not our part, but God's. We do know that in all the accounts in Scripture of those who realized God's special deliverance from their troubles-from Abraham going forth to sacrifice his son, down to when Jesus put out His hand to save the sinking and faithless Peter, and even after this in the experience of the Apostles-this invisible Power came to hand just at the right time always-never a moment too late.

The promise is, "The Lord shall help her, and that right early;" or as the Hebrew reads,

at the turning of the morning," which means just the darkest moment before dawn. So if, in whatever matter you are trying to exercise trust in your Father, the way keeps growing darker and darker, and apparently the help goes further and further away instead of coming into sight, you just grow more peaceful and still than ever, and you may know that the moment of deliverance is growing nearer for you with every breath.

In St. Mark's account of that early morning visit of the women to the tomb of Jesus, when, bent on an errand of loving service, they forgot entirely the immense stone weighing several tons lying across their path, until they were almost at their journey's end, and then one exclaimed in momentary dismay, "Who shall roll away for us this stone?" he says: "When they looked, the stone was rolled away; for it was very great." Isn't that "for" full of meaning to us? The very greatness of the difficulty which made it impossible for human hand to remove it, was the more reason why it was done by this invisible Power.

"Man's extremity is God's opportunity."

The more we are cut off from human help the greater claim we can make on Divine help. The more impossible a thing is to human or mortal power, the more at peace can we be when we look to Him for deliverance; for he has said, "My strength is made perfect in thy weakness." And St. Paul, realizing that when he placed less confidence in the mortal he had more help from the Divine, said: "When I [the mortal] am weak, then am I strong.'

Trusting means resting confidently. We are to rest confidently, saying, "God is my strength, God is my power, God is my assured victory. I will trust in Him, and He will bring

"They that trust in the Lord shall not be confounded. Blessed is he whose trust is in the God of Jacob."

"It is better to trust in the Lord [in this invisible Presence] than to put confidence in princes."

"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee."

THE SPOKEN WORD

"Without the Word was not anything made that was made.

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"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

How?

Listen: "The earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

"And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.

"And God said, Let there be a firmament

"And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear; and it was so. "And God said, Let the earth bring forth

grass, .. and it was so.

"And God said, Let us make man in our image and after our likeness,

and it was

God, Infinite Power, might have thought

about all these things till doomsday.

He might have wished during an indefinite time that they were formed and made visible. Nothing would ever have been created in visible form had there not been the Spoken Word put forth into this formless ether. It took the definite, positive "Let there be" to bring forth order out of chaos, and to establish in visible results the thoughts and desires of even an Infinite, Omnipotent Creator.

To create is to bring into visibility; to form something where before there was nothing; to cause to exist or to take form that which before was without form and void. To exist (from ex, out from, and sistare, to stand) is to stand out. Being always is; existence (Latin, existare, to stand forth, emerge, appear) is that which stands forth as a visible entity.

God creates. Because man was created or brought into the visible universe in the image and likeness of God, he, spiritually, has like powers with God: he has this power of creating, of bringing into visible form that which before did not exist. As God created by the Spoken Word, "without which was nothing