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Oh! when—without a cloud— His features trace, Whose faithful love so long We’ve known in grace; That love itself enjoy— Which ever true Did, in our feeble path, We should … have
faith in the faithfulness of God to keep His own. He will not
always use us in everything, but He will always do His own work, and we
can or ought to trust Him for it. Patience is often
a great remedy, because there is a God who acts. … There are cases
where we must let God alone do all. Do not doubt His
faithfulness … oh, how ungrateful I should be if I did not testify to
His faithfulness, and to His great and sweet and precious patience with
His poor servant. Mere attacks, I
feel, are never to be answered. If we have failed—acknowledge it; if
not—leave it to the Lord. “Thou shalt
answer for me, O Lord my God.” … You get as dirty in contending with a
sweep as in hugging him … our part is to live above these things, and
not to think of attacks but of souls. When God works we
look for full results. I have constantly
found that bringing things to God, if real, is the way of having them
done. His love and
grace never fail. Were we alone in the world, His grace would be
sufficient, and blessed be His name, perpetual company. Paul … could do
all things through Him who strengthened him. Sweet and precious
experience! not only because it gives ability to meet all
circumstances, which is of great price, but because the Lord is known,
the constant, faithful, mighty friend of the heart. It is not “I can do
all things,” but “I can do all through him who strengtheneth me.” It is
a strength which continually flows from a relationship with Christ, a
connection with Him maintained in the heart. Neither is it only “one
can do all things.” This is true; but Paul had learnt it practically.
He knew what he could … reckon on. Christ had always been faithful to
him, had brought him through so many difficulties, and through so many
seasons of prosperity, that he had learnt to trust in Him, and not in
circumstances. And Christ was the same ever. (Paul’s) heart
rested in God; his assurance with regard to the Philippians expresses
it. My God, he says, shall richly supply all your need. He does not
express a wish that God may do so. He had learnt what his God was by
his own experience. My God, he says, He whom I have learned to know in
all the circumstances through which I have passed, shall fill you with
all good things. … He applies his own experience of that which God was
to him, and his experience of the faithfulness of Christ, to the
Philippians. May the presence
of that faithful and all good Jesus sustain you and rejoice your heart. 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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