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understood, or prevent us from wresting difficult truths. Heavenly
angels prepare the heart to comprehend God’s Word. We shall be
charmed with its beauty, strengthened by its promises. Temptations
often appear irresistible because the tempted one cannot readily re-
member God’s promises and meet Satan with the Scripture weapons.
But angels are round about those willing to be taught, and they will
bring to their remembrance the truths which are needed.
“He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your re-
membrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
John 14:26
. But the
teachings of Christ must previously have been stored in the mind in
order for the Spirit of God to bring them to our remembrance in the
time of peril.
The destiny of earth’s teeming multitudes is about to be decided.
Every follower of Christ should earnestly inquire: “Lord, what wilt
thou have me to do?”
Acts 9:6
. We should now seek a deep and
living experience in the things of God. We have not a moment to
lose. We are on Satan’s enchanted ground. Sleep not, sentinels of
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God!
Many congratulate themselves on the wrong acts which they do
not commit. It is not enough that they are trees in the garden of God.
They are to bear fruit. In the books of heaven they are registered as
cumberers of the ground. Yet with those who have slighted God’s
mercy and abused His grace, the heart of long-suffering love yet
pleads.
In the summer there is no noticeable difference between ev-
ergreens and other trees; but when the blasts of winter come, the
evergreens remain unchanged while other trees are stripped of their
foliage. Let opposition arise, let intolerance again bear sway, let per-
secution be kindled, and the halfhearted and hypocritical will yield
the faith; but the true Christian will stand firm, his faith stronger, his
hope brighter, than in days of prosperity.
“He shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth
out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but
her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought,
neither shall cease from yielding fruit.”
Jeremiah 17:8
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