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Dear to the Heart of God, October 1
Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have
compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will
I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my
hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Isaiah 49:15, 16
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The church of Christ is very precious in His sight. It is the case
which contains His jewels, the fold which encloses His flock.
Christ “loved the church, and gave himself for it.”
Ephesians 5:25
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It is the purchase of His blood. The divine Son of God is seen walking
amid the seven golden candlesticks. Jesus Himself supplies the oil to
these burning lamps. He it is that kindles the flame. “In him was life;
and the life was the light of men.”
John 1:4
. No candlestick, no church,
shines of itself. From Christ emanates all its light.... The Lord God
Almighty and the Lamb are the light thereof.
At times the Lord may seem to have forgotten the perils of His
church, and the injury done her by her enemies. But God has not
forgotten. Nothing in this world is so dear to the heart of God as His
church. It is not His will that worldly policy shall corrupt her record.
He does not leave His people to be overcome by Satan’s temptations.
God declares that even a mother may forget her child, “yet will I not
forget thee.” ... God thinks of His children with the tenderest solicitude
and keeps a book of remembrance before Him, that He may never forget
the children of His care.
“Every human tie may perish,
Friend to friend unfaithful prove,
Mothers cease their own to cherish,
Heaven and earth at last remove;
But no changes
Can attend Jehovah’s love.”
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