“They
shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness”...“Tell
them how great things the Lord hath done for thee.”
Rosalind
Goforth was the wife of that remarkable missionary to China, Jonathan Goforth (1859-1936).
In her book entitled, How I Know God Answers
Prayer, The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time, the above two scriptures
are found in the forward.
Upon reading them I was immediately struck by
the fact that this is what we are to busy ourselves with. Telling hopeless individuals,
“The Lord hath done great things for us;
whereof we are glad.” To which they can echo, “The Lord hath done great things for them.”
Some,
said Mrs. Goforth, after reading her book asked, “How could you tell such
personal and sacred incidents in your life?’ Her answer was simple and direct, “I
had to or disobey God.” She writes that for some time she wouldn’t tell these
things, but got to the place she could no longer keep them in.
Jeremiah
had a similar experience I think many of us can relate to also. “Then I said, I will not make mention of
him, nor speak any more in his name. But [his word] was in mine heart as a
burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could
not [stay].”
Our Great God, who does such “Great Things,”
ought not to be kept a secret by us.
(R.D.S.)
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