[August 28]
Help us, O Lord our God; for we rest on thee.
II Chronicles 14:11
LET the world fight its fight: the Lord will supervise
and the results will be glorious eventually. Let
us who belong to the new nation, to the new kingdom
that is not of this world, who use no carnal weapons,
but the sword of the Spirit—let us fight the good fight
of faith, lay hold upon the glorious things set before
us, and not only stand ourselves, but help all those begotten
of the same Spirit and members of the same
heavenly army corps to stand, complete in him who is
the Head of the body, the Captain of our Salvation.
By and by God's loving care over all his creatures will
be manifested in the glorious kingdom of his dear Son,
which shall bless and rule, instruct, and uplift mankind
in general. "The groaning creation" will then
be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the
glorious liberty of the sons of God—so many of them
as will then accept the blessings. Then all will see
that God so loved the world as to give his Son to die
for us and to thus open the way for his kingdom blessings.
Z'04-205 R3393:5(Hymn 164)