Chap. 241 - No Place for Discouragement
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of
the inheritance of the saints in light: who hath delivered us from the power of
darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. Colossians
1:12, 13.
How full is this language! If you attempted to measure it, you would find that
in these words are measureless depths of meaning. We are now being fitted up to
dwell in the mansions which Christ has gone to prepare for those who love Him.
“Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness.” If this is true, what
excuse then have we for talking discouragement and unbelief and doubt—drawing
darkness around us as a mantle? ...
If I should look at the dark clouds—the troubles and perplexities that come to
me in my work—I should have time to do nothing else. But I know that there is
light and glory beyond the clouds. By faith I reach through the darkness to the
glory. At times I am called to pass through financial perplexities. But I do not
worry about money. God takes care of my affairs. I do all that I can, and when the
Lord sees that it is best for me to have money, He sends it to me.
The more you talk faith, the more faith you will have. The more you dwell
upon discouragement, talking to others about your trials and enlarging upon them,
to enlist the sympathy which you crave, the more discouragements and trials you
will have. Why mourn over that which you cannot avoid? ...
We are preparing for promotion from the school in this world, in which we
are forming characters for the future, immortal life, to the higher grade, the school
of heaven. But man is not to depend upon his own finite strength to wrestle with
difficulty. In faith he is to look to God, believing that all the resources of heaven
are at his command to help him overcome. Thousands upon thousands and ten
thousand times ten thousand of heavenly angels are ministering unto those who
shall be heirs of salvation.
God is inviting us to close the windows of the soul earthward and open them
heavenward, that He may flood our hearts with the glory which is shining across
the threshold of heaven.
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