Article September 6, 1958 Issue

TRUE ACTIVITY

FRANCES L. MC WILLIAMS

In this age of increasingly rapid transportation, when the danger of driving at a fast pace is emphasized, it might be well to consider what true activity really is. It has nothing in common with the hustle and bustle of mortal existence. In Isaiah we read (52:12), "Ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the Lord will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward."

To rush madly from one place to another precludes the possibility of letting the Lord go before us. This sort of haste is unseemly, disorderly, and unproductive, being unworthy of the behavior of the real man, the man who is made in God's own image and likeness, according to the first chapter of Genesis.

Christ Jesus exemplified the true man, and a careful study of his acts shows that he invariably let God direct and control them. In the eleventh chapter of the Gospel of John we are told that before death overtook Lazarus, his sisters sent for Jesus, telling him that their brother was ill. Jesus, however, did not drop everything and rush to Bethany. When he arrived at his destination four days after Lazarus was buried, he was met by the sisters' reproachful attitude. They had accepted their brother's death as a fact. No doubt they felt that Jesus had delayed beyond the possibility of being much help now. Their understanding of the Christ-power, which Jesus taught, was limited, apparently, to leaning upon the human Jesus.

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