[Songs in the Night - February 5]
Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us. Ephesians 3:20
LET us gird up the loins of our minds and be sober-minded,
and hope to the end for the grace that shall be
brought unto us at the revelation of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ.
Let us look not at things that are
seen, which at most are temporal, but let us look at the
things that are unseen, at the eternal things.
Let us
look unto Jesus with the eye of faith, let us look unto
the crown of life which he has promised, let us look
unto the place that he is preparing for us in the many
mansions of the Father's house; let us look, not with
doubt and fear, but with full confidence that the grandest
of our hopes will be much more than realized when
he shall bid us come up higher and enter into the joys
of our Lord.
"Faith can firmly trust him, come what
may."
The more we exercise faith along these lines
of his direction, the more are we pleasing in the sight
of him who has called us out of darkness into his
marvelous light; and the more such faith we exercise
the more we will have in us the power of God, which
will work in us both to will and to do his good pleasure—which will enable us more and more to live separate
from the world, to overcome the world, and to fight a
good fight against sin and selfishness, the world, the
Adversary, and our own flesh. Z'06-359 R3892:4 (Hymn 126)