Desires Of The Soul.

What do you desire, O my soul? 

With what imaginable excellency would you clothe yourself! 

What desirable object would you pitch upon? 

Is it beauty? 

The righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. 

So shall they be forever with the Lord.

Is it riches? 

Wealth and riches are the portion of all God's children...

Every one in His family shall have a rich, a glorious, an incorruptible, and eternal inheritance among the saints!

Is it honor? 

What honor can compare to this...

To be a friend and favorite of God...

And a spouse of Christ...

To have a crown of righteousness, of life, and of glory! 

Nay more, a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory set upon your head!

Is it pleasure? 

The just shall enter into their Master's joy...

And there are rivers of pleasure at God's right hand for evermore!

In a word, what would you have, O my soul? 

A merging of all the glorious things of eternity?

If heaven, and the holiness thereof are what you seek...

Then heaven and the excellencies thereof you shall find!

Lord, make me holy...then I shall be happy!

Psa 73:25  Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
 

Psa 73:26  My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. 

~Thomas Sherman~

HE Hath Triumphed Gloriously

Exodus 15:1  Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.     

Beloved, God calls us to Victory. 

Have any of you given up the conflict?

Have you surrendered? 

Have you said, "This thing is too much"? 

Have you said, "I can give up anything else but this"? 

If you have, you are not in the land of promise.

God means you should accept every difficult thing that comes in your life. 

He has started with you, knowing every difficulty. 

And if you dare to let Him, He will carry you through not only to be conquerors, but "more than conquerors."

Are you looking for all the victory?

God gives His children strength for the battle and watches over them with a fond enthusiasm.

He longs to fold you to His arms and say to you, "I have seen thy conflict, I have watched thy trials, I have rejoiced in thy victory; thou hast honored Me."

You know He told Joshua at the beginning, "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life; as I was with Moses, so shall I be with thee: 

I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

And again, He says to us, "Fear thou not, for I am with thee."

~A. B. Simpson~