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Glad In The Lord, January 28
My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord .
Psalm 104:34
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Rest yourself wholly in the hands of Jesus. Contemplate His great love, and
while you meditate upon His self-denial, His infinite sacrifice made in our behalf
in order that we should believe in Him, your heart will be filled with holy joy,
calm peace, and indescribable love. As we talk of Jesus, as we call upon Him in
prayer, our confidence that He is our personal, loving Saviour will strengthen, and
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His character will appear more and more lovely.... We may enjoy rich feasts of
love, and as we fully believe that we are His by adoption, we may have a foretaste
of heaven. Wait upon the Lord in faith. The Lord draws out the soul in prayer,
and gives us to feel His precious love. We have a nearness to Him, and can hold
sweet communion with Him. We obtain distinct views of His tenderness and
compassion, and our hearts are broken and melted with contemplation of the love
that is given to us. We feel indeed an abiding Christ in the soul.... Our peace is
like a river, wave after wave of glory rolls into the heart, and indeed we sup with
Jesus and He with us. We have a realizing sense of the love of God, and we rest in
His love. No language can describe it, it is beyond knowledge. We are one with
Christ, our life is hid with Christ in God. We have the assurance that when He who
is our life shall appear, then shall we also appear with Him in glory. With strong
confidence, we can call God our Father. Whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
His Spirit makes us like Jesus Christ in temper, and disposition, and we represent
Christ to others. When Christ is abiding in the soul the fact cannot be hid; for He
is like a well of water springing up into everlasting life. We can but represent the
likeness of Christ in our character, and our words, our deportment, produces in
others a deep, abiding, increasing love for Jesus, and we make manifest ... that we
are conformed to the image of Jesus Christ.
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