“Why,” she said to herself with a start of surprise, “just see what the King has done. He has made that which seemed the greatest torment and weakness and despair of my life, the thing I most dreaded and suffered from, into the best thing of all. I was always afraid that I must be Craven Fear because of the Fear which so tormented me. He, by his wonderful grace, has changed me into something I could never have hoped to be, a fearless witness. Oh, how wonderful the King is! Oh, what lovely plans and purposes he has, that our greatest torments and failures should become the strongest and best things in our lives. ‘Out of weakness he makes us strong to wax valiant in fight and overcome.’”

“No wonder the King loves him,” went on Grace and Glory after a moment’s pause in her thoughts, and then she gave a happy little laugh. “Why! I can see that already he is champing like a warhorse at the sound of the trumpets to be off to those far-off valleys and to be witnessing there too. All the energy and strength which he used to put into his bullying is now turned into this new service and is become his greatest asset.”

Just as she reached this point in her thoughts she saw Fearless Witness turn to the King and ask a question. Then the King also gave a little laugh, raised his voice, and said so clearly that she could hear the words:

“Ask and see what the answer is.” Then they both turned and looked around at her as she sat alone in the shade of the great tree.

“Grace and Glory,” said the King clearly, “Come here to us; we want to speak to you.” Without a moment’s hesitation Grace and Glory rose and went and stood beside them, and Peace and Joy walked behind her, taller and more regal and beautiful than ever before.

“Grace and Glory,” said Fearless Witness, “we have been talking about those many far-off valleys around the world, where the King needs Fearless Witnesses.”

“Yes,” said she simply.

“We are going to them,” said the King. “Will you go with us?”

Grace and Glory then put one of her hands into his and other into the hand of Fearless Witness and said, “Make me all that you wish to make me, my Lord, and do with me all that you wish to do.”

There the three stood together, the two creatures united with the Creator. He was the will to love, they were the response to that will and the channels through which to express that love.

Then the King’s voice rang out clearly and strongly over the Mountain of Aloes, saying with glad assurance and command:

“Ask of me and I will give thee the heathen for an inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession” (Psa. 2:8).