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Though thy way be long and dreary, Eagle strength He’ll still renew Garments fresh and foot unweary Tell how God hath brought thee through.We should be in
the spirit of waiting pilgrims, not weary ones. You must not call
yourself old as if you were tired. The Lord is never weary, yet the
Ancient of Days; you have to renew your strength as an eagle to bear
fruit in old age. The source of
real strength is in the sense of the Lord’s being gracious. The natural
man in us always disbelieves Christ as the only source of strength
and every blessing. His way is “in
the sanctuary” if His way is “in the sea,” and if we are with Him
there, the sea bows to His power; but to none else that I know of …
when He works all is soon still. Oh, if the Lord
Himself was not the workman, how hopeless would be the thought of
reaching all the souls that are in need. It is a comfort then to be
able to look to Him, that His eye and grace may reach them. I have only one
precious word to say to you: keep close to Jesus, you know you will
find there joy, strength, and that consciousness of His love which
sustains everywhere and makes everything else become nothing,
there is our happiness and our life. “God is our
refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” … Human efforts
shut this help out. … No human planning is ever right. In His own time
and way, God will come in. … Human efforts prove want of faith and
restlessness, and planning is mere flesh. For the path where my Saviour is gone Has led up to His Father and God— To the place where He’s now on the throne:
And His
strength shall be mine on the road.
Duty ever leads
into difficulty, but I have the consolation of saying, God is there,
and victory certain. Occupy yourselves
with Christ that you may be refreshed and strengthened. … It is a great
thing to pass through sorrows with Him; they are then turned to a well,
and grace comes down too. Pray for the saints—all of them—carry the
sorrows to Christ, and in your own spirit bring Christ to the sorrows. It is a great
comfort that, in looking at Christ, I not only see the thing I ought to
be, but I get the thing I ought to be, “grace for grace.” “We all, with
open face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same
image from glory unto glory.” There is real growth there. … In likeness
to Christ, and it ought to be growth every instant. I generally have
many things which press heavily within the range of my responsibility.
But I commit them to Him who is mighty above all which this poor world
can require, and to whom a burden is no burden at all. … He orders
everything according to the counsel of His will. 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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