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Chapter 9

Our Heart's Desire


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IN your several spheres of probation, you are yearning for the glory to be revealed. You hunger and thirst for the prevalence of a noble enlightenment among men. You love Gad yourselves with all your hearts and souls. You long to see others rejoice in Him and exalt Him in a sincere and intelligent way. You have a compassionate regard for the condition of mankind, and desire, with even a tearful earnestness, to see them in a blessed condition. You sigh and faint for the delights of sanctified and intellectual friendship, in which the hearts of companions should open with a noble warmth, to the great and noble topics that the universe presents to the mind, instead of gravitating heavily to the petty accidents of animal life. Ah, and you are afflicted with your own incapacities that blur the sight and enfeeble the hands, and drag you into abysses of gloom as dark and dreadful as Jonah's habitation in the storm-tossed sea. Now, there is comfort concerning all this. It is true, and true comfort wears well, whereas false comfort tails you in the long run. The comfort is that these things are unattainable in the present condition of human life upon earth, but that they are attainable and will be realised in their very perfection in the Kingdom of God. The recognition of this is a help. We reconcile ourselves hopefully to our lot, enduring the hardness of the desert by knowing that it is desert, and in the confident anticipation of the land of promise at the end of the journey. One comfort more. It is not displeasing to the Father that we thus hunger and thirst to the point even of misery, after righteousness. On the contrary, Jesus said, "Blessed are ye that hunger and thirst after righteousness; for ye shall be filled."-- Robert Roberts


 

You must make up your mind that the world around you will never be what it ought to be until made such by God's own powerful hand of judgment. Therefore endure the desolation, but beware of the effects of contact with it. Do not conform except in trifles. Conquer your environment; let not your environment conquer you. What is this but "overcoming the world" upon which our acceptability with Christ at last depends.

 

 


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