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The Ministry of Healing
“Fear thou not; for I am with thee:
Be not dismayed; for I am thy God:
I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee;
Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of My righteous-
ness.”
Isaiah 41:10.
“Ye that have been borne by Me from your birth,
That have been carried by Me from your earliest breath,
Even to your old age I am the same;
Even to hoar hairs I will carry you;
I have done it, and I will still bear you;
I will carry, and I will deliver you.”
Isaiah 46:3, 4, Noyes.
Nothing tends more to promote health of body and of soul than
does a spirit of gratitude and praise. It is a positive duty to resist
melancholy, discontented thoughts and feelings—as much a duty
as it is to pray. If we are heaven-bound, how can we go as a band
of mourners, groaning and complaining all along the way to our
Father’s house?
Those professed Christians who are constantly complaining,
and who seem to think cheerfulness and happiness a sin, have not
genuine religion. Those who take a mournful pleasure in all that
is melancholy in the natural world, who choose to look upon dead
leaves rather than to gather the beautiful living flowers, who see
no beauty in grand mountain heights and in valleys clothed with
living green, who close their senses to the joyful voice which speaks
to them in nature, and which is sweet and musical to the listening
ear—these are not in Christ. They are gathering to themselves gloom
and darkness, when they might have brightness, even the Sun of
Righteousness arising in their hearts with healing in His beams.
Often your mind may be clouded because of pain. Then do not
try to think. You know that Jesus loves you. He understands your
weakness. You may do His will by simply resting in His arms.