The Way
"And
thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD
thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee,
and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou
wouldest keep His
commandments, or no."
-DEUTERONOMY
8:2 [KJV]
When
you look back upon the way the Lord has led you these many years in
the wilderness, can you not see how circumstance after circumstance,
and event after event arose, to prove what was in you; whether godly
fear, whether simplicity and sincerity, whether a desire to fear God,
whether a dread to offend Him, whether the life and power of vital
godliness, or whether little else than an empty profession without
the life-giving power of God in the soul?
What
a mercy for you to be able to look back and see how the Lord appeared
for you, when without Him you must have sunk; when you can feel, to
your soul's comfort, that the Lord did uphold you in the trying hour,
did appear for you in distressing circumstances, did make bare His
right arm when you had no strength of your own, did guide you when
you had lost all clue, did bring you safe through all when, without
His help, you must have been utterly lost. What a mercy it is to be
able, by the actings of living faith (and sure I am, there must be
faith in exercise), to look back upon the way, and believe that
indeed the grace of God was in your heart, that the Lord proved it,
and shewed it to be genuine by every circumstance that has taken
place.
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
March
9th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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