GLADSOME MORNING BELOVED BROTHERS AND SISTERS, HOW WAS YOUR NIGHT, AND YOUR WEEKEND?? FOR WHOM THE LORD LOVE HE CHASTENED!!! “And all the children of Israel murmured.” Numbers 14:2 There are murmurers amongst Christians now, as there were in the camp of Israel of old. There are those who, when the rod falls, cry out against the afflictive dispensation. They ask, “Why am I thus afflicted? What have I done to be chastened in this manner?” A word with thee, O murmurer! Why should thou murmur against the dispensations of thy heavenly Father? Can he treat thee more hardly than thou deserves? Consider what a rebel thou was once, but he has pardoned thee! Surely, if he in his wisdom sees fit now to chasten thee, thou should not complain. After all, art thou smitten as hardly as thy sins deserve? Consider the corruption which is in thy breast, and then wilt thou wonder that there needs so much of the rod to fetch it out? Weigh thyself, and discern how much dross is mingled with thy gold; and dost thou think the fire too hot to purge away so much dross as thou hast? Does not that proud rebellious spirit of thine prove that thy heart is not thoroughly sanctified? Are not those murmuring words contrary to the holy submissive nature of God’s children? Is not the correction needed? But if thou wilt murmur against the chastening, take heed, for it will go hard with Murmurers. God always chastises his children twice, if they do not bear the first stroke patiently. But know one thing“He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.” All his corrections are sent in love, to purify thee, and to draw thee nearer to himself. Surely it must help thee to bear the chastening with resignation if thou art able to recognize thy Fathers hand. For “whom the Lord love he chastened, and scourge every son whom he receive. If you endure chastening, God deal with you as with sons.” “Murmur not as some of them also murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer.” MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU, MAY THE MAKE HIS FACE TO SHINE UPON YOU AND BE GRACIOUS TO YOU, THE LORD LIFT UP IS COUNTENANCE UPON YOU AND GIVE YOU PEACE IN JESUS NAME!!! (NUM. 6:24-26) REMAIN BLESSED IN AND THROUGH CHRIST JESUS!!! ABBASHALOM HAVE A BLESSED DAY AND GLORIOUS WEEK IN JESUS NAME!!
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:00:35 +0000
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