Fwd: Gems From My Reading - 4753

We love him, because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19


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From: Norman Hiebert <njhiebert@sympatico.ca>
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"Be of good cheer."

"Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me?" 

(Psalm 42:11)

David acted with much wisdom; for, since the devil, in seeking to discourage us, appeals to our feelings rather than to our reason, a little commonsense and practical logic will often times lift the gloom and dispel the mists.

The only real occasion for despondency in a Christian is sin; everything else may be brought to the Lord in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving.  And if you have the priceless possession of an uncondemning heart, you may take it for certain that the attempt to dishearten you, is the enemy's endeavour to paralyze your energies and to thwart the purposes of God in your life.

A depressed Christian is a prisoner of war, under the power of the enemy, unable efficiently to serve his rightful King.  Satan knows this all too well; for this is his very purpose in all the attacks of depression that come upon us.  He knows that temptations from without no longer have the effect upon us that they once had, and that the worker in the vineyard will not likely be tempted away from his appointed task by the attractions or the opinions of the world.  And so he concentrates on the attempt to get us discouraged, dejected, depressed.  (Heaven's Cure for Earth's Care)

N.J. Hiebert - 4753