July 25
NOTHING TO ALARM US
"But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and
stand in thy lot at the end of the days." Dan. 12:13
We cannot understand all the prophecies, but yet we regard them
with pleasure, and not with dismay. There can be nothing in the
Father's decree which should justly alarm His child. Though the
abomination of desolation be set up, yet the true believer shall not
be defiled; rather shall he be purified, and made white, and tried.
Though the earth be burned up, no smell of fire shall come upon the
chosen. Amid the crash of matter, and the wreck of worlds, the Lord
Jehovah will preserve His own.
Calmly resolute in duty, brave in conflict, patient in suffering,
let us go our way, keeping to our road, and neither swerving from it
nor loitering in it. The end will come; let us go our way till it
does.
Rest will be ours. All other things swing to and fro, but our
foundation standeth sure. God rests in His love, and, therefore, we
rest in it. Our peace is, and ever shall be, like a river. A lot in
the heavenly Canaan is ours, and we shall stand in it, come what may.
The God of Daniel will give a worthy portion to all who dare to be
decided for truth and holiness as Daniel was. No den of lions shall
deprive us of our sure inheritance.