Testimony for the Church, Number 16 (1875)
Dear Bro. ----- has not understood the condition his own heart.
Selfishness has found a lodgment there, and peace, healthful, calm
peace has departed. What you all lack is the element, love--love to
God, and love to your neighbor. The life that you now live, you do not
live by faith on the Son of God. There is a lack of firm trust, a
withholding, a fearfulness to resign all into the hands of God, as
though he could not keep that which is committed to his trust. You are
afraid some evil is designed, which will do you harm unless you assume
the defensive, and commence a warfare in your own favor. The children
of God are wise and powerful according to their reliance upon his
wisdom and power. They are strong and happy according to their
separation from the wisdom and help of man. Daniel and his companions were
captives in a strange land, but God suffered not the envy and hatred of
their enemies to prevail against them. The righteous have ever obtained
help from God. How often have the enemies of God united their strength
and wisdom to destroy the character and influence of a few simple
persons who trusted in God. Because the Lord was for them none could
prevail against them. Only let the followers of Christ be united in one
and they will prevail. Let them be disjoined from their idols, and be
separate from the world, and the world shall not separate them from
God. Christ is our present, all-sufficient Saviour. In him all fullness
dwells. It is the privilege of Christians to know indeed that Christ is
in them of a truth. This is the victory that overcometh the world, even
our faith. All things are possible to him that believeth; and
whatsoever things we desire when we pray, if we believe that we receive
them we shall have them. This faith will penetrate the darkest cloud,
and bring rays of light and hope to the drooping, desponding, soul. It
is the absence of this faith and trust which brings perplexity,
distressing fears, and surmisings of evil. God will do great things for
his people when they put their entire trust in him. Godliness with
contentment is great gain. Pure and undefiled religion will be
exemplified in the life. Christ will prove a never-failing source of
strength, a present help in every
time of trouble.
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