This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus |
Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The scripture assures us, The Lord will provide |
Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home |
To carry an umbrella without any headgear places a fellow in a social no man's land-in the category of one hurrying round to the corner shop for a bottle of stout on a rainy day at the behest of a nagging landlady. |
Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. |
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it. |
We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to His glory and our own advantage |
Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark |