[September 14]
With us is the Lord our God to help us, and to fight
our battles. II Chronicles 32:8
WHAT a lesson is here for all of the Lord's people
of spiritual Israel today! When our proudest, strongest
foes seem triumphing over us the most, when they are
loudest in their denunciations of the Lord and his
promises, is the very time when we should lay hold on
the Lord's promises with the greatest confidence. Indeed,
we give it as our experience that those who are
most thoroughly rooted and grounded, whose hopes
are most surely anchored within the veil, are those
who have been attested very trying experiences, and
have had occasion to call mightily upon the Lord for
help, when there was no earthly arm to lean upon.
How many have found that the breaking of earthly ties
has meant the strengthening of the heavenly ones, that
the opposition of the world and the Adversary has
meant increase of spiritual favor, because "greater is
he that is for us than all they that be against us."
Z'05-191 R3582:6(Hymn 301)