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Monday, July 21, 2008
MORNING:
"The daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee."
-- Isaiah 37:22
Reassured by the Word of the Lord, the poor trembling citizens of Zion
grew bold, and shook their heads at Sennacherib's boastful threats.
Strong faith enables the servants of God to look with calm contempt
upon their most haughty foes. We know that our enemies are attempting
impossibilities. They seek to destroy the eternal life, which cannot
die while Jesus lives; to overthrow the citadel, against which the
gates of hell shall not prevail. They kick against the pricks to their
own wounding, and rush upon the bosses of Jehovah's buckler to their
own hurt.
We know their weakness. What are they but men? And what is man but a
worm? They roar and swell like waves of the sea, foaming out their own
shame. When the Lord ariseth, they shall fly as chaff before the wind,
and be consumed as crackling thorns. Their utter powerlessness to do
damage to the cause of God and his truth, may make the weakest soldiers
in Zion's ranks laugh them to scorn.
Above all, we know that the Most High is with us, and when he dresses
himself in arms, where are his enemies? If he cometh forth from his
place, the potsherds of the earth will not long contend with their
Maker. His rod of iron shall dash them in pieces like a potter's
vessel, and their very remembrance shall perish from the earth. Away,
then, all fears, the kingdom is safe in the King's hands. Let us shout
for joy, for the Lord reigneth, and his foes shall be as straw for the
dunghill.
"As true as God's own word is true;
Nor earth, nor hell, with all their crew,
Against us shall prevail.
A jest, and by-word, are they grown;
God is with us, we are his own,
Our victory cannot fail."
EVENING:
"Why go I mourning?"
-- Psalms 42:9
Canst thou answer this, believer? Canst thou find any reason why thou
art so often mourning instead of rejoicing? Why yield to gloomy
anticipations? Who told thee that the night would never end in day? Who
told thee that the sea of circumstances would ebb out till there should
be nothing left but long leagues of the mud of horrible poverty? Who
told thee that the winter of thy discontent would proceed from frost to
frost, from snow, and ice, and hail, to deeper snow, and yet more heavy
tempest of despair? Knowest thou not that day follows night, that flood
comes after ebb, that spring and summer succeed winter? Hope thou then!
Hope thou ever! For God fails thee not. Dost thou not know that thy God
loves thee in the midst of all this? Mountains, when in darkness
hidden, are as real as in day, and God's love is as true to thee now as
it was in thy brightest moments. No father chastens always: thy Lord
hates the rod as much as thou dost; he only cares to use it for that
reason which should make thee willing to receive it, namely, that it
works thy lasting good. Thou shalt yet climb Jacob's ladder with the
angels, and behold him who sits at the top of it-thy covenant God. Thou
shalt yet, amidst the splendours of eternity, forget the trials of
time, or only remember them to bless the God who led thee through them,
and wrought thy lasting good by them. Come, sing in the midst of
tribulation. Rejoice even while passing through the furnace. Make the
wilderness to blossom like the rose! Cause the desert to ring with
thine exulting joys, for these light afflictions will soon be over, and
then "for ever with the Lord," thy bliss shall never wane.
"Faint not nor fear, his arms are near,
He changeth not, and thou art dear;
Only believe and thou shalt see,
That Christ is all in all to thee."
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