Metropolitan TabernacleElephant & Castle, London

As we are all aware, we live at a time when a ‘new society’ is under construction, with new thinking and an entirely new morality. A massive revolution has been under way for years. God has been dismissed and most traditional morality trampled upon and scorned. There is, of course, no place for God’s revelation, for that is seen as a ridiculous basis for the structure of society.

Like no other agency, Sunday Schools enable us to reach a large part of the rising generation, and to draw children and teenagers to the Saviour. Indeed, whether or not a congregation contains young people saved from the neighbourhood will usually depend on whether there has been an effective Sunday School. The general rule is – no Sunday School ministry, no saved teens and twenties in the church, except, perhaps, for children of believers. It is as predictable and inevitable as that.

It is an astonishing concept for us that Christ Jesus the Lord of glory, the second person of the Trinity, should dearly love his people. Here is an opportunity for us just to skim the surface of that mighty, unspeakable love. ‘Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?’ asks Paul, immediately naming the forces that seek to do so. We notice at once that these are personified, so that tribulation is ‘who’, as if it were a person, and in a sense these forces are personal, because the enemy of our souls stands behind them.

Are you troubled, and are you inclined to despair? Take counsel; the storms that are beating about your vessel are only such as beat about your Master's. These storms are not beyond what believers in Jesus can bear. There is a power within you which can overcome all the winds and the waves, for is not the Lord himself with you as your captain, and is not the Holy Ghost with you as your guide, and have you not a faithful God to trust to in the stormiest night you may ever know?