Keep your eye steadily fixed on the infinite grandeur of Christ's
finished work and righteousness. Look to Jesus and believe, look to
Jesus and live! Nay, more; as you look to him, hoist your sails and
buffet manfully the sea of life. Do not remain in the haven of
distrust, or sleeping on your shadows in inactive repose, or suffering
your frames and feelings to pitch and toss on one another like vessels
idly moored in a harbor. The religious life is not a brooding over
emotions, grazing the keel of faith in the shallows, or dragging the
anchor of hope through the oozy tide mud as if afraid of encountering
the healthy breeze. Away! With your canvas spread to the gale, trusting
in Him, who rules the raging of the waters. The safety of the tinted
bird is to be on the wing. If its haunt be near the ground--if it fly
low--it exposes itself to the fowler's net or snare. If we remain
grovelling on the low ground of feeling and emotion, we shall find
ourselves entangled in a thousand meshes of doubt and despondency,
temptation and unbelief. "But surely in vain the net is spread in the
sight of THAT WHICH HATH A WING" (marginal reading Prov. 1:17). Hope
thou in God. --J. R. Macduff
The joy of the Lord is our strength...it is not contingent on outward circumstances, feelings, or what we can readily see. God is strong, He is mighty to save, and like the good Father that He is, He cares about every area of our lives. He desires that in all things we would prosper, even as our soul prospers. He is never far away from our cries, no matter how isolated we may sometimes feel, He is closer than our very breath. No matter what raging sea lies before you threatening to engulf your very life, remember that we serve a God who can still the waves. No matter what furnace you find yourself standing in, remember that we have a Lord who walks in the fire with us, and keeps us from being burned by the flames . Is anything too hard for God? Trust Him, at the appointed time He will move on your behalf. “In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.” Psalms 18:6 ESV http://bible.c
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