Never flinch. My standard-bearers must you ever be. Bear your standard high.
Life has its dangers and difficulties, but real as these seem, the moment you see in them a power of evil which will in response to your faith be forced to work in some way for your good, in that moment of recognition evil and danger cease to have any power over you.
This is a wonderful truth. Believe it. Rejoice in it.
Do not judge of another’s capacity by your own.
If the burden another bears presses too heavily, what matter that you could bear that load lightly?
You must learn of Me to judge of the sorrow or strain of another, not with a feeling of superiority, but with one of humble thankfulness.
Would not your burdens have seemed light to Me? But insofar as they pressed heavily upon you so did I judge of them.
That which tore your heart may seem light to another.
Truly I said — Judge not. Only to God can the heart of man be made plain.
Seek My Presence, not only that you may understand Me, but that you may gain the insight to understand more clearly My other children.
Eternal Life gives a youthful resiliency.
Think of My parable of the wine-skins. Those who merely worship Me as a creed are like unto old wine-skins.
They cannot accept new truth, new life. It would destroy, not increase their faith.
Those who have My Gift of Eternal, youth-giving Life have the ever-expanding, revitalizing, joy-quality of that Life.
The new wine poured so freely into new bottles. That bracing wine sustains the many who receive it.
As one in a storm needs to dwell in quiet thought upon the firmness of the foundation of his home, so you need in dangers and difficulties of whatever kind to withdraw, and in quiet assurance dwell upon that foundation upon which the house of your life and character is built.
Rest your thoughts on this, on Me. Do not dwell on the channels through which My Help may be directed to you. To do so is indeed to feel at the mercy of wind and the weather. You can draw no strength from such.
No, a sense of security can only come from relying on Me, the All-powerful, the Unchanging.
Security engenders Strength, then Peace, then Joy.
“Other foundations can no man lay.”
As the circle of your life widens you will feel ever more and more the need of Me. The need indeed to draw from My unfailing resources to gain the help and wisdom required to deal with these new contacts.
Do not refuse them, only let nothing idle or of little worth engross your attention.
As your circle is enlarged, your means to deal with it adequately must grow too.
This is My desire. Ever walk with Me. Learn of Me. Witness for Me, Glorify Me.
As God was in the days of Moses, so is He today. Responsive to the prayer of faith. Still ready and willing to make a path through the Red Sea.
Have the faith of Moses, who never faltered in his trust, even with the sea before, the advancing host behind, and no visible way of escape. To the very edge of the waters he led his people.
His task was done. It was for God, his God, in whom he trusted, to act now. Moses waited for, and expected, that act. But to the edge he had to go.
How often man draws back, halts at the thought of the troubled sea ahead. To go further is useless, he says, and gives up.
Or he goes within sight of the sea, and pauses. He must go on, always as far as he can; he must do all his share. God will not. On –to the Edge of the Sea.
Learn from this a mighty lesson. Do all your work, and leave your salvation to God. To say it will be no good is not to go to the edge, and that is to miss the saving Power of God.
The waters shall be divided, and you shall walk through the midst of the sea on dry land. I have said it. I, the Lord. Have I not done this for so many in your own day? For you? Think on these things.
The Gift of Eternal Life is a most precious one. Each one who receives it must demonstrate by Joy and Trust and radiancy of Spirit, expressed in being and in bearing, the quality of the Life he possesses.
The other life is existence — just not death.
Power and Joy must radiate from you. These are the expressions of Eternal Life. Life Eternal is to know the Father and Me, His Son, Whom He sent.
“God so Loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish but have everlasting (i.e., Eternal) Life.”
Directly that Life is possessed by a man, all that is not simple, child-like has to go.
Not by complicated devices is My work accomplished.
My followers must be simple and direct. “Let your yea be yea and your nay be nay,” I said.
Simplicity Is forceful. Simplicity Is great . It Is a conquering Power.
UP-HILL
Does the road wind up-hill all the way?
Yes, to the very end.
Will the journey take the whole long day?
From morn to night, my friend.
G. Rossetti
Share with Me the tireless search for the lost, the ache of disappointment, the sublime courage, the tenderness of complete forgiveness. Share the Joys, the sorrows, the Love, the scorn.
I walk the lakeside still, and pause, as, to one and another, I utter the same call I uttered in Galilee , “Come and I will make you fishers of men.”
And he was dumb, because he believed not.
There is physical correspondence to faith and to doubt.
Especially is this so among those who would serve Me. For unlike others, they are not so controlled by the law of physical success or failure, but are under the direct control of the Laws of My Kingdom.
So, in many cases, you may note good health in one ignorant of Me, and ill-health in one of My followers, until he has learned the full control of the physical by the Spiritual. In his case the warring of physical and Spiritual may cause physical ill-health, or unrest.
So do not fret about the physical side, aim increasingly at control by My Spirit.
And He passing through the midst of them.
Face evil undaunted, and it will fall back, and let you pass on and do your work for Me.
The maddened crowd had sought to cast Me headlong, but they made way for Me, and through their midst I passed unhindered.
Do not be surprised to find antagonism where you meet evil, because you are a home of My Spirit, and it is My Spirit that arouses the antagonism. Go on your way so quietly, and trust in Me.
In My Strength My follower need not flinch, but, boldly facing evil, will overcome evil with good.
You follow the dauntless Christ.
