Light In Darkness

                                                        
2Sa 22:29  For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.

Am I in the light? Then Thou, O LORD, art my lamp. 

Take Thee away and my joy would be gone; but as long as Thou art with me, I can do without the torches of time and the candles of created comfort. 

What a Light the Presence of God casts on all things! 

We heard of a lighthouse which could be seen for twenty miles, but our Jehovah is not only a God at hand, but far off is He seen, even in the enemy's country. 

O LORD, I am as happy as an angel when Thy love fills my heart. Thou art all my desire. 

Am I in the dark? Then thou, O LORD, wilt Lighten my darkness. 

Before long things Will Change

Affairs may grow more and more dreary and cloud may be piled upon cloud...

But if it grow so dark that I cannot see my own hand, still I Shall See the Hand of the LORD. 

When I cannot find a light within me, or among my friends, or in the whole world, the LORD, who said, "Let there be light," and there was light, can say the same again. 

He will Speak me into the Sunshine yet. I shall not die but live. 

The day is already breaking. 

This sweet text shines like a morning star. I shall clap my hands for joy ere many hours are passed.

~Charles Spurgeon

The LIVING GOD!

Dan 6:20  And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?
      
How many times we find this expression in the Scriptures, and yet it is just this Very Thing that we are so Prone To Lose Sight Of.

We know it is written "The Living GOD"...

But in our daily life there is scarcely anything we practically So Much Lose Sight Of as the fact that GOD is the Living GOD...

That He is now whatever He was three or four thousand years since...

That He has the Same Sovereign Power, the Same Saving Love towards those who love and serve Him as ever He had...

And that He will do for them now what He did for others two, three, four thousand years ago, simply because He is the Living GOD, the Unchanging One.

Oh, how therefore we should Confide in Him, and in our darkest moments never lose sight of the fact that He is still and ever will be the Living GOD!

Be assured, If you Walk with Him and Look to Him and Expect Help from Him, He will Never Fail You.

An older brother who has known the Lord for forty-four years, who writes this, says to you for your Encouragement that He has Never Failed Him.

In the Greatest Difficulties, in the Heaviest Trials, in the Deepest Poverty and Necessities, He has Never Failed Me...

But because I was Enabled by His Grace to Trust Him He has Always appeared for My Help.

I delight in speaking well of His name.

~George Mueller

Luther was once found at a moment of Peril and Fear, when he had need to grasp Unseen Strength, sitting in an abstracted mood tracing on the table with his finger the words, "Vivit! vivit!" ("He lives! He lives!").

It is Our Hope for ourselves, and for His truth, and for Mankind.

Men come and go; leaders, teachers, thinkers speak and work for a season, and then fall silent and impotent.

He abides.

They die, but He Lives.

They are Lights Kindled, and, therefore, sooner or later quenched...

But He is the True Light from which they Draw All Their Brightness, and He Shines For Evermore.

~Alexander Maclaren

One day I came to know Dr. John Douglas Adam, writes C. G. Trumbull.

I learned from him that what he counted his Greatest Spiritual Asset was his unvarying consciousness of the Actual Presence of Jesus.

Nothing bore him up so, he said, as the Realization that Jesus was Always With Him In Actual Presence...

And that this was so independent of his own feelings, independent of his deserts, and independent of his own notions as to how Jesus would manifest His presence.

Moreover, he said that Christ was the Home Of His Thoughts.

Whenever his mind was free from other matters it would turn to Christ; and he would talk aloud to Christ when he was alone, on the street, anywhere, as easily and naturally as to a human friend.

So real to him was Jesus' Actual Presence.

Gaining By Giving

Proverbs 11:25  The Liberal soul shall be made Fat: and he that Watereth shall be Watered also himself.

If I desire to Flourish in soul, I Must Not Hoard Up my stores but Must Distribute to the poor. 

To be Closed and Stingy is the World's Way to Prosperity, but it is Not God's Way, for He saith, "There is that Scattereth, and yet Increaseth; and there is that Withholdeth more than is meet, and it Tendeth to Poverty." 

Faith's Way Of Gaining Is Giving.

I must try this again and again, and I may expect that as much of Prosperity as will be Good for me will Come to me as a Gracious Reward for a Liberal Course of Action. 

Of course, I may not be sure of growing rich. I shall be fat but not too fat. 

Too great riches might make me as unwieldy as corpulent persons usually are and cause me the dyspepsia of worldliness, and perhaps bring on a fatty Degeneration of the heart. 

No, if I am fat enough to be healthy, I may well be satisfied; and if the LORD grants me a competence, I may be thoroughly content. 

But there is a Mental and Spiritual fatness which I would greatly covet, and this comes as the Result of Generous thoughts toward my God, His church, and my fellow men. 

Let me not stint, lest I starve my heart. 

Let me be Bountiful and Liberal, for so shall I be like my LORD. 

He gave Himself for me...

Shall I grudge Him anything?

~Charles Spurgeon