KenH
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"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" - Romans 8:35
Be this never forgotten, that if we have ever been brought near to the Lord Jesus Christ by the actings of living faith, there never can be any final, actual separation from him.
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It is in grace as it is in nature; the clouds do not put out the sun. He is still in the sky, though the clouds oft obscure his bright rays. So it is with the blessed Sun of righteousness. Our unbelief, our ignorance, our darkness of mind, our guilt of conscience, our many temptations - these do not remove the Sun of righteousness from the sky of grace. Though thick clouds come between him and us and make us feel as though he was blotted out, or at least as if we were blotted from his remembrance, yet, through mercy, where grace has begun the work, grace carries it on.
"Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ," (Philippians 1:6).
- excerpt from J.C. Philpot's Daily Portions, May 2
Be this never forgotten, that if we have ever been brought near to the Lord Jesus Christ by the actings of living faith, there never can be any final, actual separation from him.
...
It is in grace as it is in nature; the clouds do not put out the sun. He is still in the sky, though the clouds oft obscure his bright rays. So it is with the blessed Sun of righteousness. Our unbelief, our ignorance, our darkness of mind, our guilt of conscience, our many temptations - these do not remove the Sun of righteousness from the sky of grace. Though thick clouds come between him and us and make us feel as though he was blotted out, or at least as if we were blotted from his remembrance, yet, through mercy, where grace has begun the work, grace carries it on.
"Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ," (Philippians 1:6).
- excerpt from J.C. Philpot's Daily Portions, May 2
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