God's Abiding & Gracious Presence
"O
satisfy us early with Thy
mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days."
-PSALM
90:14 [KJV]
Many
of the dear children of God are tossed up and down on a sea of great
uncertainty, doubt and fear, because they have not had sensible
manifestations of Christ to their soul. He has not come into them in
the power of His love; still they often say, "When wilt Thou
come unto me? O visit me with Thy salvation; speak a word to my soul;
it is Thyself, and Thyself alone, I want to hear, to see, and to
know!"
Now
these are drawings of the gracious Lord, the secret beginnings of His
coming, the heralds of his approach, the dawning of the day before
the morning star arises and the sun follows upon his track. But when
the Lord does come in any sweet manifestation of His
presence or of His
power, then He
will abide where He
has come, for He
never leaves or forsakes a soul which He
has once visited. He may seem to do so; He
may withdraw Himself;
and then who can behold Him?
But He never
really leaves the temple which He
has once adorned and sanctified with His
presence. Christ is formed in the hearts of His
people the hope of glory; their body is the temple of the Holy Ghost,
and Christ dwells in them by faith. Though we often mourn over His
absence and do not feel His
gracious presence as we would, still He
is there, if He
has once come.
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
May
21st, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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