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“Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled”
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keep yours also. But all these things they will do to you for My
name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me.” You are
to carry the gospel forward in the midst of opposition, peril, loss,
and suffering.
As the world’s Redeemer, Christ was constantly confronted with
apparent failure. He seemed to do little of the work He longed to do.
Satanic influences were constantly working to oppose His way. But
He would not be discouraged. Through Isaiah He declares,
“‘I have labored in vain,
I have spent my strength for nothing
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and in vain;
Yet surely my just reward is with the Lord,
And my work with my God.’”
Isaiah 49:4
Jesus rested on this word, and He gave Satan no advantage.
When the deepest sorrow was closing in on His heart, He said to His
disciples, “The ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in
Me.” “The ruler of this world is judged.” Now shall he be thrown
out.
John 12:31
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Christ knew that when He would exclaim, “It is finished!” all
heaven would triumph. His ear caught the distant music and the
shouts of victory in the heavenly realm. He knew that the name of
Christ would be praised from world to world throughout the universe.
He knew that truth, armed with the Holy Spirit, would conquer in
the contest with evil. He knew that the life of His trusting disciples
would be like His, a series of uninterrupted victories, not appearing
that way to human sight, but recognized as such in the great hereafter.
Christ did not fail, neither was He discouraged, and His followers
are to exhibit a faith of the same enduring nature. They are to live
as He lived and work as He worked. Instead of complaining about
difficulties, they are to overcome them, to despair of nothing.
Christ intends that heaven’s order and divine harmony will be
represented in His church and on earth. In this way, through His
people He will receive a large revenue of glory. Filled with the
righteousness of Christ, the church is His storehouse, in which the