"Now
our Lord Jesus Christ Himself,
and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us
everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your
hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work."
-II
THESSALONIANS
2:16, 17 [KJV]
When
the Lord is pleased to apply a promise, drop in a word of
encouragement, speak home an invitation with power, He administers
thereby consolation. It comforts the drooping heart; it speaks peace
to a guilty conscience. And this consolation is "everlasting
consolation;" for it flows from nothing less than such a source,
viz. the eternal love of God; and flows onward to an everlasting
ocean of infinite delight. Any intimation of an interest in the
everlasting love of God is a blessing beyond all price; for the Lord
never gives any such intimation but as a certain pledge, earnest, and
foretaste of immortal bliss. He can neither disappoint nor deceive.
Once blest, blest for ever.
We
may indeed for a long time together cease to enjoy the comfort, and
even may fall into the greatest depths of darkness and confusion, so
as to lose sight of almost all our evidences; but the foundation of
God standeth sure: "The Lord knoweth them that are His."
The river of eternal love may seem to flow by and not reach our
breast, so high are the banks and hidden out of sight the stream.
Still if ever it has watered our soul it will be one day "waters
to swim in" of eternal delight.
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
March
1st, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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