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No Place for Discouragement, August 28
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be
partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: who hath
delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us
into the kingdom of his dear Son.
Colossians 1:12, 13
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How full is this language! If you attempted to measure it, you would
find that in these words are measureless depths of meaning. We are now
being fitted up to dwell in the mansions which Christ has gone to prepare
for those who love Him.
“Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness.” If this is true,
what excuse then have we for talking discouragement and unbelief and
doubt—drawing darkness around us as a mantle? ...
If I should look at the dark clouds—the troubles and perplexities that
come to me in my work—I should have time to do nothing else. But I
know that there is light and glory beyond the clouds. By faith I reach
through the darkness to the glory. At times I am called to pass through
financial perplexities. But I do not worry about money. God takes care of
my affairs. I do all that I can, and when the Lord sees that it is best for me
to have money, He sends it to me.
The more you talk faith, the more faith you will have. The more
you dwell upon discouragement, talking to others about your trials and
enlarging upon them, to enlist the sympathy which you crave, the more
discouragements and trials you will have. Why mourn over that which
you cannot avoid? ...
We are preparing for promotion from the school in this world, in
which we are forming characters for the future, immortal life, to the
higher grade, the school of heaven. But man is not to depend upon his
own finite strength to wrestle with difficulty. In faith he is to look to
God, believing that all the resources of heaven are at his command to help
him overcome. Thousands upon thousands and ten thousand times ten
thousand of heavenly angels are ministering unto those who shall be heirs
of salvation.
God is inviting us to close the windows of the soul earthward and open
them heavenward, that He may flood our hearts with the glory which is
shining across the threshold of heaven.
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