JANUARY ELEVEN - The VOICE! Wm. Foulkes

 

John 1: 23. He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness.

 

            A VOICE, conscious of itself and of Christ —this was John the Baptist. His art was not “divine philosophy,” or music with its charms. He laid no foundations for temples and builded no thrones for kings. He was only a voice that spent itself in calling; an iconoclastic voice, strident, stinging, scathing. Yet he was the voice of God. God spoke in him and called men to repentance and to judgment. By his voice God was heralding the coming of the King. 

            In the hour of great trial, fire or flood or midnight evil, it is the warning voice upon. which most depends. The watchman upon the tower must cry aloud. Are there those whom I shall meet this day, to whom I ought to become God’s voice? Will I fear to say, “‘Repent,” to my own soul and to the souls of men about me, as the judgment of Christ draws near? ‘The wilderness may threaten me with its solitude, the crowded marts of men may engulf me in their seething multitudes. Wherever God may cast my lot today I would lift a clarion voice in his behalf who has called me into his service crying, Repent, believe, for the King draweth near! 

Prayer

Lord, speak to me, that I may speak in living echoes of that tone this day! AMEN