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We are Glad in the Lord, October 31
My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord .
Psalm 104:34
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Rest yourself wholly in the hands of Jesus. Contemplate His great love,
and while you meditate upon His self-denial, His infinite sacrifice made in
our behalf in order that we should believe in Him, your heart will be filled
with holy joy, calm peace, and indescribable love. As we talk of Jesus,
as we call upon Him in prayer, our confidence that He is our personal,
loving Saviour will strengthen, and His character will appear more and
more lovely.... We may enjoy rich feasts of love, and as we fully believe
that we are His by adoption, we may have a foretaste of heaven. Wait
upon the Lord in faith. The Lord draws out the soul in prayer, and gives us
to feel His precious love. We have a nearness to Him, and can hold sweet
communion with Him. We obtain distinct views of His tenderness and
compassion, and our hearts are broken and melted with contemplation of
the love that is given to us. We feel indeed an abiding Christ in the soul....
Our peace is like a river, wave after wave of glory rolls into the heart, and
indeed we sup with Jesus and He with us. We have a realizing sense of
the love of God, and we rest in His love. No language can describe it, it
is beyond knowledge. We are one with Christ, our life is hid with Christ
in God. We have the assurance that when He who is our life shall appear,
then shall we also appear with Him in glory. With strong confidence,
we can call God our Father. Whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
His Spirit makes us like Jesus Christ in temper, and disposition, and we
represent Christ to others. When Christ is abiding in the soul the fact
cannot be hid; for He is like a well of water springing up into everlasting
life. We can but represent the likeness of Christ in our character, and our
words, our deportment, produces in others a deep, abiding, increasing love
for Jesus, and we make manifest ... that we are conformed to the image of
Jesus Christ
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Letter 52, 1894
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