2020: Christ Overcomes and brings Victory In our Distress
From Jeremiah 1 Adapted from the writings of Oswald Chambers
Jesus Christ is the only One Who can throw light on the prophecies of the Bible, and He is the only One Who throws any kind of light on the acute suffering and amazing misery of what we are witnessing in this world.
We know heart-hunger and soul-despair for ourselves, but have we ever understood what Jesus Christ wanted His disciples to understand when He took them to watch with Him in the Garden?
Very few of us understand why clouds of darkness come. It is God trying to get us into line with the prophets and apostles. It is the Holy Spirit seeking to bring us into the place of prayer for others, and we nearly always misunderstand it and say, “I must have sinned,” or “I must get out of this, I have got the blues.”
Spiritual courage is the high heart that sees the difficulty and faces it. That is the courage that is valuable to God.
Would we know, for one thing, the exceeding sinfulness of sin? The right measure of sin's sinfulness is the dignity of Him who came into the world to save sinners. If Christ is so great, then sin must indeed be sinful!
Would we know, for another thing, the strength of a true Christian's foundation for hope? In ourselves we are great sinners. But in Jesus Christ we have a great Savior. He is a strong foundation-stone, able to bear the weight of a world's sin. He that believes on Him shall not be confounded. (1 Peter 2:6.)
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