Everyman’s Hut

Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 53, 13 December 1940, Page 6

Everyman’s Hut

He giveth more grace when the burdens grow greater,

He sendeth more strength when the labours increase;

To added affliction He addeth His mercies,

To multiplied trials His multiplied peace.

When we have exhausted our store of endurance,

When our strength has failed ere the day is half done,

When we reach the end of our hoarded

resources,

Our Father’s full giving is only begun.

His love has no limit, His grace has no measure,

His power no boundary known unto men;

For out of His infinite riches in Jesus

He giveth and giveth and giveth again.

One of the Divine characteristics is “giving”“God loved” and “God gave.” His love is seen in action in His gifts—more than that, His love is measured by His giving. The great apostle Paul could say, “He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things.” The great fact of God’s gift to the world, as set forth in the scenes of Gethsemane and Calvary, is the guarantee that in Christ He freely gives all. The part is less than the whole, and it pleased God that in His Son all fulness should dwell, for all things were created by Him, through Him, and for Him. All things are to be brought into subjection to Him, and in the final judgment of the great white throne, the Man of Calvary is the supreme Judge. To every one who receives Christ, God gives the power or right to become His son, a member of His family, and, by inheritance, that one is made heir of all things that are God’s and through Him, Christ’s. And the marvel of it all is that it is all of grace, “Not that we loved God, but that He loved us,” and gave His only Son to take our place under the judgment for sin. Why be a bankrupt sinner when all the riches of the glory of His inheritance is available for us by faith in Christ Jesus? Accept the gift of God while the offer is still open— it with both hands and enter into the enjoyment of “His infinite riches in Jesus.”

But the acceptance of God’s gift carries with it the responsibility to give to Him in returnto give our lives, our health, our homes, our families, our means, great or little, our talents, our bodies, everything in and for His service, that others may be brought to know of His love, His salvation, and to accept "His Son as Saviour. And for this reason, to share in the* cost of erecting and maintaining Everyman’s Huts throughout New

Zealand is a privilege that every Christian should seek after, for conversely, our love to His is measured by our giving back to Him. We regret that, through indisposition, Mrs. Taylor has not, been able to be present, but we trust that she soon will be fit to carry on again in the good work.