MORNING MANNA 3-1-24
NEVER ALONE
“…. lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen. ”-Matt.28:20
In 1896, Glasgow University conferred on David Livingston the Degree of Doctor of Laws, which meant a great deal in Scotland in those days. He arose to speak and was received very respectfully by the people of Scotland. He was gaunt. He was haggard as the result of hardships in tropical Africa. His left arm had been crushed by a lion, and it hung helplessly at his side. And he announced to them his resolve to return to Africa without misgiving and with great gladness.
Were you to travel to Scotland you could see Livingston’s place of birth where his family grew up in a little room about the size of six by eight, could hardly see how that many people could stand in the room, much less grow up in it, and this man became one of the great heroes of Scotland and the missionary world. But after he spoke to them for a few moments he said to the vast group there, would you like me to tell you what supported me through all the years of exile from a people whose language I did not really understand, and whose attitude toward me was always uncertain and often hostile? It was this: lo I am with you alway, even to the end of the age. He said on these words I staked everything and they never failed. They will not fail.
David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346
