• “PEACE does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to ‘wait trustfully and quietly on Him’ who has all things safely in His hands.” – Elisabeth Elliot

Joy and Strength 08/28

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love.
John xv. 10.

This did not once so trouble me.
That better I could not love Thee;
But now I feel and know
That only when we love, we find
How far our hearts remain behind
The love they should bestow.
Richard Chenevix Trench.

OUR Lord gives the answer to a difficulty continually perplexing honest Christians — “How am I to learn to love God? I want to do my duty, but I do not feel as if I loved God.” Our Lord gives the answer, “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Act for God, do and say the things that He wills; direct your thoughts and intentions God-ward; and, depend upon it, in the slow process of nature, all that belongs to you — your instincts, your intelligence, your affections, your feelings — will gradually follow along the line of your action. Act for God; you are already showing love to Him and you will learn to feel it.
Charles Gore.

They who, continuing faithful to divine grace, however partially communicated, serve God with their whole lives, will never fail of that one reward, the greatest which even He has to bestow, the being made able to love Him with their whole hearts.
Dora Greenwell

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  • “God is sovereign, that is He is the boss. He is in control. He is the supreme ruler of heaven and earth for all of eternity. He is Lord. We don’t make Him Lord. He is Lord. And joy comes when we acknowledge that He is Lord; we rest in His Lordship. We trust His sovereignty, and we surrender to it. That means that God has the right to give, and God has the right to take away.” – Nancy DeMoss

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For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the humble with salvation. — Psalm 149:4 (NKJV)

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