Instruments.
"Yield .... your members as instruments of righteousness unto
God."--Rom. vi. 13.
This does not sound so easy and tuneful as most of your other "morning
bells," you think! But listen for a few minutes and you will hear the
music.
What are your members? Hands, feet, lips, eyes, ears, and so on. What are
you to do with them? "Yield" them, that is, give them up altogether, hand
them over to God.
What for? That He may use them as instruments of righteousness. That is,
just as we should take an instrument of music, to make music with it, so
He may take your hands and feet and all your members, and use them to do
right and good things with.
If a little one gives himself or herself to God, every part of that little
body is to be God's little servant, a little instrument for Him to use.
The little hands will no longer serve Satan by striking or pinching; the
little feet will not kick or stamp, nor drag and dawdle, when they ought
to run briskly on some errand; the little lips will not pout; the little
tongue will not move to say a naughty thing. All the little members will
leave off serving Satan, and find something to do for God; for if you
"yield" them to God, He will really take them and use them.
He will tell the hands to pick up what a tired mamma has dropped, and to
fetch her a footstool; and the fingers to sew patiently at a warm
petticoat for a poor child, or to make warm cuffs for a poor old man. He
will tell the feet to run on errands of kindness and help. He will set the
lips to sing happy hymns, which will cheer and comfort somebody, even if
you never know of it. He will use the eyes for reading to some poor sick
or blind woman, or to some fretful little one in your own home. You will
be quite surprised to find in how many ways He will really use even your
little members, if you give them and your whole self to Him. It will be so
nice! You will never be miserable again with "nothing to do!"
"Take my hands, and let them move
At the impulse of Thy love.
Take my feet, and let them be
Swift and beautiful' for Thee."