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“Accept each moment as it comes to you from His dear hands, as being the needed sunshine or dew for that moment’s growth. Say a continual ‘Yes’ to your Father’s will.“

“Legal Christians do not deny Christ. They only seek to add something to Christ. Their idea is Christ and something besides. Perhaps it is Christ and good works, or Christ and earnest feelings, or Christ and clear doctrines, or Christ and certain religious performances. All of these are good…

However, to add anything to Christ, no matter how good it may be is to deny His completeness and to exalt self.” 🔥

“Under God’s care we run no risks…

…If our Father permits a trial to come, we must accept it with thanks from His dear hand. This does not mean, however, that we must like or enjoy the trial itself, but that we must see God’s will in the trial. It is not hard to do this, when we have learned to know that His will is the will of love, therefore, always lovely.”

“We must abandon ourselves more completely to the Lord, that His mighty power may more perfectly work in us. Moreover, we must forget our sin as soon as it is confessed and forgiven. We must not dwell on it, and examine it, and indulge in distress and remorse. We must not put it on a pedestal and then walk around it and view it on every side, magnifying it into a mountain that hides God from our eyes.”

“We are discouraged because we expected something from ourselves, and are sorely disappointed not to find something there.”

“Believe He is faithful, not because you feel it, or see it, but because He says He is. Cultivate a continuous habit of believing, and all doubt will vanish in the blaze of the glory of the absolute faithfulness of God.”

“Above all, do not be afraid of this blessed life, lived hour by hour and day by day under the guidance of your Lord! If He seeks to bring you out of the world and into a very close relationship with Him, do not shrink from it. It is your most blessed privilege. Rejoice in it. Embrace it eagerly. Surrender all to the Lord so it can be yours.”

“We never have to wait for Him. He is always waiting for us.”

“In short you must get rid of every inward and outward thing that concerns you.”