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The Lord is Himself gone before, He has marked out the path that I tread; It’s as sure as the love I adore, I have nothing to fear nor to dread.You must not attach too much importance to your joy … nor to your distress. … You can add nothing by joy or sorrow to the perfect work of Christ. … If some one has paid my debts, my sorrow at the folly that contracted them or my joy at their being discharged adds noting whatever to the payment of the debt, though both be natural and just.
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Abraham found in the mountain a place where he could intercede with God, while Lot was saying, “I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me and I die.” Unbelief always looks at the place of faith as the most awful thing possible—all darkness.
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He is not ashamed to call you brethren; and will you be ashamed to confess Him as your Lord and Master in the face of all the world? Be not debating within yourselves when you shall avow yourselves; do it at once, decidedly. Make the plunge, and trust God for the consequence. I know it by experience that an open, bold confession of being Christ’s is more than half the struggle over. … I say, as one who knows, that if a man, in the strength of the Lord, is just brought to say to his companions and friends, I am Christ’s, and I must act for Him—that he will not suffer what others must feel who are creeping on fearful and afraid to avow Him whom they desire to serve.
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I know no word more settling to the soul than “Be careful for nothing.” How often have I found it so … “for nothing.”
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How little we gain by the prudence of unbelief; it gives occasion to the power and attacks of the enemy.
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Never can unbelief—however good its intentions in joining the work of faith—do anything except spoil it.
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How far the child of God may go astray when he puts himself under the protection of unbelievers, instead of relying on the help of God in all the difficulties which beset the path of faith!
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Satan gets entrance for his full power in the soul the moment there is a shade of distrust in God.
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When unbelief is in action it only produces troubles and sorrows.
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When there remains in the heart any groan which is not uttered to God as to a God of grace, any distrust of Him, it is the flesh and work of the enemy. … We may be cast down at times (although scarcely ever without some want of faith) and yet everything goes on well if we bring it all to God.
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Anxiety which anticipates evil is not the faith which faces the difficulties through which God sees well to make us pass.
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When the soul is distressed or cast down, that is not sin in itself. But sin comes in when there is distrust of God.
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I am not afraid while He lives and is Jesus.
Pilgrim Portions - Meditations for the Day of Rest - Selected from the
Writings, Hymns, Letters, etc., of J. N. Darby SEDIN-Servicio Evangélico |
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