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----------MY CONFIDENCE"You ask me do I fear?Should that child fearWhose Father owns earth's store of precious things;Whose Will carves destinies, whose Wish sways kings;Whose Love surpasses fondest mother-love,And whose unsleeping eye guards from above?* * *"My Father is the Lord; I am His child.His storehouse groans beneath a golden weight,And I shall never want, though sore my strait.When danger threatens and the way seems drear,My Father's guiding hand is ever near;His kindly counsel will my way attendAnd bring me safely to my journey's end."--Unknown.R5085 page 263====================THE SACRIFICE OF THE CHRISTAT JORDAN our Lord made a consecrationof Himself, even unto death. That is tosay, He was baptized, immersed. He said,"Henceforth, I shall have no will of Myown. Whatever is Your will, Father, shallbe My will. I shall do anything that Youwill have Me do; not merely those thingsrequired in obedience to the Divine Law--failure to do which would be sin--butall the things written in the Book. I havegiven up My life. Direct Me through Your providencesand through Your words that I may see Your will anddo it." This was not a giving away of life in the senseof giving it to the world; for He was giving Himself toGod. When He made His consecration unto God, Hewas prepared to face even death itself and to give up Hisexistence if such should be the Father's will.--Psa. 407,8;Heb. 107.Following His consecration He began His ministry.As He advanced in the service of fulfilling the Father'swill, He submitted Himself to everything that was writtenin the Book. The language of His heart was, "Lo,I come (in the volume of the Book it is written of Me),to do Thy will, O God" (Heb. 107), and in His submissionof Himself He gave out His power, strength, to suchan extent that it is stated that great multitudes of peopleout of all Palestine and beyond, "came to hear Him andto be healed of their diseases; and they that were vexedwith unclean spirits; and they were healed. And thewhole multitude sought to touch Him; for there went