Morning, October 25
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“For the truth's sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us forever.”
2 John 2
Once let the truth of God obtain an entrance into the human heart
and subdue the whole man unto itself, no power human or infernal can
dislodge it. We entertain it not as a guest but as the master of the
house—this is a Christian necessity , he is no Christian who doth not thus believe. Those who feel the
vital power of the gospel, and know the might of the Holy Ghost as
he opens, applies, and seals the Lord’s Word, would sooner be torn to pieces than be rent away from the
gospel of their salvation. What a thousand mercies are wrapped up
in the assurance that the truth will be with us forever; will be our
living support, our dying comfort, our rising song, our eternal glory;
this is Christian privilege , without it our faith were little worth. Some truths we outgrow and
leave behind, for they are but rudiments and lessons for beginners,
but we cannot thus deal with Divine truth, for though it is sweet
food for babes, it is in the highest sense strong meat for men. The
truth that we are sinners is painfully with us to humble and make
us watchful; the more blessed truth that whosoever believeth on the
Lord Jesus shall be saved, abides with us as our hope and joy. Experience,
so far from loosening our hold of the doctrines of grace, has knit
us to them more and more firmly; our grounds and motives for believing
are now more strong, more numerous than ever, and we have reason to
expect that it will be so till in death we clasp the Saviour in our
arms.
Wherever this abiding love of truth can be discovered, we are bound
to exercise our love. No narrow circle can contain our gracious sympathies,
wide as the election of grace must be our communion of heart. Much
of error may be mingled with truth received, let us war with the error
but still love the brother for the measure of truth which we see in
him; above all let us love and spread the truth ourselves.