THE LORD OF HOSTS IS WITH US!
"Say
unto my soul, I
am thy salvation."
-PSALM
35:3 [KJV]
To
keep water sweet, it must be perpetually running; and to keep the
life of God up in the soul, there must be continual exercises. This
is the reason why the Lord's people have so many conflicts, trials,
painful exercises, sharp sorrows, and deep temptations,—to keep
them alive unto God; to bring them out of, and to keep them out
of that slothful, sluggish, wretched state of carnal security and
dead assurance in which so many seem to have fallen asleep—fallen
asleep like the sailor upon the top of the mast, not knowing what a
fearful gulf is boiling up below. The Lord, therefore, "trieth
the righteous."
He will not suffer His
people to be at ease in Zion; to be settled on their lees, and get
into a wretched Moabitish state. He therefore sends afflictions upon
them, tribulations, and trials, and allows Satan to tempt and harass
them.
And
under these feelings the blessed Spirit, from time to time, raises up
in them this sigh and cry, "Say
unto my soul, I am thy salvation."
None but Thyself,
Lord, can save me; nothing short of Thy
voice can whisper peace to my conscience; nothing short of Thy
blood can speak away guilt from lying as a heavy burden upon my
heart; nothing short of Thy
love shed abroad by the Holy Ghost can make my soul happy in Thyself.
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
May
13th,
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