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9 AWAITING THE LORD Mark 13:24-27 Toward the close of 1956 we faced a serious crisis financially. That is something of an old experience, I admit, but whenever it arises we must exercise faith anew. Yesterday's manna cannot meet today's need. So we waited upon God in pleading, impor tunate prayer. With a little trepidation, I asked our students to beseech God for at least $10,000 within a specified period of time. Oh, for a simple, childlike, cloudless trust! The Lord gave us $10,000 plus! While we are still far from being out of the woods, we were never theless able to pay up all our bills and begin the new year, apar t from our bond-issue, with a clean slate. To me the dramatic provision of money was a minor miracle, a vindication of the testimony we have steadfastly struggled to maintain. How great is His faithfulness, and how great His power! In a world of tension and anxiety, there is no greater beatitude imaginable than the experience of living daily in the peace and joy which God bestows through faith in Jesus Christ. May I share with you what G. A. Studder t-Kennedy wrote about that peace and that joy which we have as the gift of grace? Peace does not mean the end of all our striving, Joy does not mean the dr ying of all tears, Peace is the power that comes to souls arriving Up to the light where God Himself appears. Joy is the wine that God is ever pouring Into the hearts of those who strive with Him, Lighting their eyes to vision and adoring, Strength'ning their arms to warfare glad and grim. -VCG, 1957 DECEMBER 5