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Daughters of God
There are many who think they can come to Jesus only in the way
the child did who was possessed of the demon that threw him down
and tore him as he was being led to the Saviour. You are not of the
kind that should have any such conflicts and trials. Richard Baxter was
distressed because he did not have such agonizing, humiliating views
of himself as he thought he ought to have. But this was explained to
his satisfaction at last and peace came to his heart.
There is no requirement for you to take on a burden for yourself,
for you are Christ’s property. He has you in His hand. His everlasting
arms are about you. Your life has not been a life of sinfulness in the
common acceptance of the term. You have a conscientious fear to do
wrong, a principle in your heart to choose the right, and now you want
to turn your face away from the briers and thorns to the flowers.
Let the eye be fixed on the Son of Righteousness. Do not make
your dear, loving, heavenly Father a tyrant; but see His tenderness,
His pity, His large, broad love, and His great compassion. His love
exceeds that of a mother for her child. The mother may forget, yet will
not I forget thee, saith the Lord. Oh, my dear, Jesus wants you to trust
Him. May His blessing rest upon you in a rich measure is my earnest
prayer.
You were born with an inheritance of discouragement, and you
need constantly to be encouraging a hopeful state of feelings. You
received from both father and mother a peculiar conscientiousness
and also inherited from your mother a disposition to demerit self
rather than to exalt self. A word moves you while a heavy judgment
only is sufficient to move another of a different temperament. Were
you situated where you knew you were helping others, however hard
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the load, however taxing the labor, you would do everything with
cheerfulness and distress yourself that you did nothing.
Samuel, who served God from his childhood, needed a very dif-
ferent discipline than one who had a set, stubborn, selfish will. Your
childhood was not marked with grossness, although there were the
errors of humanity in it. The whole matter has been laid open before
me. I know you far better than you know yourself. God will help you
to triumph over Satan if you will simply trust Jesus to fight these stern
battles that you are wholly unable to fight in your finite strength.
You love Jesus and He loves you. Now just patiently trust in Him,
saying over and over, Lord, I am Thine. Cast yourself heartily on