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When Infirmities Come, Trust in God, September 24
The Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my
salvation. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of
salvation.
Isaiah 12:2, 3
.
Now when you can no longer be active, and infirmities press upon you, all that
God requires of you is to trust Him. Commit the keeping of your soul to Him as
unto a faithful Creator. His mercies are sure, His covenant is everlasting. Happy
is the man whose hope is in the Lord his God, who keepeth truth forever. Let your
mind grasp the promises and hold to them. If you cannot call to mind readily the
rich assurance contained in the precious promises, listen to them from the lips of
another. What fullness, what love and assurance are found in these words from the
lips of God Himself, proclaiming His Love, His pity and interest in the children
of His care:
“The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abun-
dant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and
transgression and sin” (
Exodus 34:6, 7
).
The Lord is full of compassion for His suffering ones. What sins are too great
for His pardon? He is merciful, and as such is infinitely more ready and more
pleased to pardon than to condemn. He is gracious, not looking for wrong in us;
He knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are but dust. In His boundless
compassion and mercy He heals all our backslidings, loving us freely while we
are yet sinners, withdrawing not His light, but shining on us for Christ’s sake.
Will you ... always trust in Jesus, who is your righteousness? The love of
God is shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Ghost, which is graciously given
unto you. You are one with Christ. He will give you grace to be patient, He will
give you grace to be trustful, He will give you grace to overcome restlessness, He
will warm your heart with His own sweet Spirit, He will revive your soul in its
weakness. Only a few days more to be as pilgrims and strangers in this world,
seeking for a better country, even an heavenly. Our home is in heaven. Then stay
your soul in confidence upon God. Roll all your burdens upon Him.
Oh, how many times has your heart been touched with the beauty of the
Saviour’s countenance, charmed with the loveliness of His character, and subdued
with the thought of His suffering. Now He wants you to lean your whole weight
upon Him.... “And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou
wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. Behold,
God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid” (
Isaiah 12:1, 2
).—
Selected
Messages, book 2, pp. 231, 232
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