But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Jude 1:20-21
Greetings Truehearts,
how blessed you are to have such loving care in your sister jskm, and this because of the love of God in Christ Jesus the Lord shed upon her heart for you, just as He has shed His love upon you, that you may grow in His grace and care.
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Ephesians 6:18
How wonderfully we see the Scriptures come alive...
1Corinthians 12:12-21
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
For the body is not one member, but many.
If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
And if they were all one member, where were the body?
But now are they many members, yet but one body.
And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
Likewise, the refreshing advice of ephesians4_23, to rest.... to take some quiet time... how valuable this advice is to you Truehearts.
If I could please add that just as you are confessing here your needs, you shall be lifted by the Lord and carried through this time.
Had you sat and grumbled to yourself, you would become like a smouldering fire with every puff of complaint stirring a rage within your heart that might otherwise consume you.. but our Lord in His great love and care for you, one of His very own children, has stirred His fire within you and the feelings of guilt, depression, being lost, tiredness, rebellion, insecurity, bitterness and pride will be utterly consumed by His holiness as you continue to seek after Him and desire to have His help.
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 40:28-31
Bless you ....><>
Br. Bear
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From C. Spurgeon...
And I will remember my covenant.
Genesis 9:15
Mark the form of the promise.
God does not say, “And when ye shall look upon the bow, and ye shall remember my covenant, then I will not destroy the earth,” but it is gloriously put, not upon our memory, which is fickle and frail, but upon God’s memory, which is infinite and immutable. “The bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant.”
Oh! it is not my remembering God, it is God’s remembering me which is the ground of my safety; it is not my laying hold of his covenant, but his covenant’s laying hold on me.
Glory be to God! the whole of the bulwarks of salvation are secured by divine power, and even the minor towers, which we may imagine might have been left to man, are guarded by almighty strength.
Even the remembrance of the covenant is not left to our memories, for we might forget, but our Lord cannot forget the saints whom he has graven on the palms of his hands.
It is with us as with Israel in Egypt; the blood was upon the lintel and the two side-posts, but the Lord did not say, “When you see the blood I will pass over you,” but “When I see the blood I will pass over you.”
My looking to Jesus brings me joy and peace, but it is God’s looking to Jesus which secures my salvation and that of all his elect, since it is impossible for our God to look at Christ, our bleeding Surety, and then to be angry with us for sins already punished in him.
No, it is not left with us even to be saved by remembering the covenant.
There is no linsey-wolsey here-not a single thread of the creature mars the fabric.
It is not of man, neither by man, but of the Lord alone.
We should remember the covenant, and we shall do it, through divine grace; but the hinge of our safety does not hang there
-it is God’s remembering us,
not our remembering him;
and hence the covenant is an everlasting covenant.
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Galatians 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
