June 11
NO CAUSE TO BLUSH
"Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed" Isa. 54:4
We shall not be ashamed of our faith. Carping critics may assail
the Scriptures upon which we ground our belief, but every year the
Lord will make it more and more clear that in His Book there is no
error, no excess, and no omission. It is no discredit to be a simple
believer; the faith which looks alone to Jesus is a crown of honor on
any man's head, and better than a star on his breast.
We shall not be ashamed of our hope. It shall be even as the Lord
has said. We shall be fed, led, blest and rested. Our Lord will come,
and then the days of our mourning shall be ended. How we shall glory
in the Lord who first gave us lively hope, and then gave us that which
we hoped for!
We shall not be ashamed of our love. Jesus is to us the altogether
lovely, and never, never, shall we have to blush because we have
yielded our hearts to Him. The sight of our glorious Well-beloved will
justify the most enthusiastic attachment to Him. None will blame the
martyrs for dying for Him. When the enemies of Christ are clothed with
everlasting contempt, the lovers of Jesus shall find themselves
honored by all holy beings, because they chose the reproach of Christ
rather than the treasures of Egypt.