[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0801":3},"AUGUST 1\r\nSurrender your very selves to God as living men who have risen from the dead (Romans 6:13, Weymouth).\r\nI went one night to hear an address on consecration. No special\r\nmessage came to me from it but as the speaker kneeled to pray, he  dropped this sentence: \"O Lord, Thou knowest we can trust the Man  that died for us.\" And that was my message. I rose and walked down the street to the train; and as I walked, I pondered deeply all\r\nthat consecration might mean to my fife and-[ was afraid. And then, above the noise and clatter of the street traffic came to me the\r\nmessage: \"You can trust the Man that died for you.\" I got into the\r\ntrain to ride homeward; and as I rode, I thought of the changes,\r\nthe sacrifices, the disappointments which consecration might mean to me and-I was aft-aid.\r\nI reached home and sought my room, and there upon my knees I saw my past life. I had been a Christian, an officer in the\r\nchurch,\r\na Sunday-school superintendent but had never definitely yielded my life to God.\r\nYet as I thought of the darling plans which might be baffled, of\r\nthe cherished hopes to be surrendered, and the chosen profession which I might have to abandon-I was afraid.\r\nI did not see the better things God had for me, so my soul was shrinking back; and then for the last time, with a swift rush of    convicting power, came to my innermost heart that searching   message:\r\n\"My child, you con trust the Man that died for you. If you cannot trust Him whom can you trust?\"\r\nThat settled it for me, for in a flash I saw the Man who so loved me as to die for me could be absolutely trusted with all the\r\nconcerns of the life He had saved.\r\nFriend, you can trust the Man that died for you. You can trust Him to baffle no plan which is not best to be foiled, and to carry out\r\nevery one which is for God's glory and your highest good. You can trust Him to lead you in the path which is the very best in this\r\nworld for you. --J. H. McC.\r\nJust as I am, thy love unknown, Has broken every barrier down,\r\nNow to be Thine, yea, Thine ALONE, O Lamb of God, I come!\r\n\"Life Is not salvage to be saved out of the world, but an Investment to be used in the world.",1783499793259]