The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-04-29


MS%S lot. But Moses.
800 g es,H,=--->----' To comfort and
encourage them. speaks, saying:
Stand still and see the salvation of
The Lord--the Lord shall fight for you
and We shall hold your peace"
For the Christian today. Egypt and
Pharaoh stand for the world and its
god, Satan. These do not give up vic
TINS without !, struggle, and ali who
have ever started To leave the world
and he separate unto the Lord have
found the need for just such deliv-
erer us the text speaks of.
realization of the suhiciency of
the Lord brings II calmness and
quiet into the soul Of one pressed on
every hGNd 10y Satan and his hosts.
which nothing else can give There is
nothing too hard for him for he is the
Almighty One. As easy for him to
open the Red sea rs to make ii what II
was. As easy for him 10 remove the
mountains with word as To make
them with word The one who made
the mountains and the sen could do as
he wished with them. Pharaoh and
his army We're no more to him than a
few feeble insects upon the face of the
earth. As easy for him to overcome
one rs the other. Whatever the oh
stacle or whatever the might and
power of the opposition makes little
difference 10 HIM; he is the Almighty.
1t may be asked how it is that so
many of the Lords people are over
come and brought back To the world
in bondage again? Because they have
not learned TO "stand still" and allow
him TO fight for them. We are forever
mistrusting the Lord. Fearful lest he
forget us; we must be up and doing
in order to deliver ourselves. Because
Of the legal tendency of our natures
we adopt the worlds motto and think
that "the Lord helps those who help
themselves" But the text says, 1.-THE
Lord shall fight for you and We shall
hold your peace" Oh, that we might
learn to "stand still" and allow him TO
fight for us; turning the discouraging
and losing battle into a glorious vic
ance for ourselvesl In these days
when there seems to be such increase
i'm the power and subtlety of Satan.
and when there seems such danger of
the Christian being drawn back into
the world, there is all the more need
for us TO mediate upon the sufliciency
of our God
Added confidence and peace come to
us as we think of the relationship we
sustain To him. Just as Israel in that
far off day was his special people so
we are today-perhaps closer than
Israel was. for we are in peculiar
sense his children. When he fights
for us he fights for his own. His love
spurs him on to stand between us and
all our enemies Over and over in the
Word he reminds us of his everlasting
love. He says. "a mother may forget
her sucking child, yet will / not forget
thee" 81 have loved you with an
everlasting love-" he tells his people.
Who has not heard of a mothers
love urging her 10 go on fighting for
her own until the limits of human en-
durance were reached and passed but
II is conceivable that mother should
forget her child. II is inconceivabe
that he should forget one of his own,
however feeble that one should be,
even as the sucking child.
What refuge from danger we have
in him. Under his wings there is per-
feet security and safety. When the
hawk aDproa ches the mother hen puts
herself between il and her brood. To
touch the chickens there must be first
the overcoming of the mother hen
The Psalmist sings in his time of dan.
ger. "Under his wings will I abide"
oh. my troubled Christian friend, let
this word get into your consciousness
and rest In it's sweetness-the Lord
shall fight for you and We shall hold
your peace.
Satan is expert i'm arranging circum-
stances before the believer which seem
almost to force that one back into the
world for relief. There appears no
more hope of overcoming than APP
peared to Israel. hemmed in on that
road before the Red sea. But the sea
did open and Israel did go through
dry shod and Pharaoh was overcome
and his power broken. Let this en-
courage and hearten the tried soul of
the believer. That circumstance that
seems to force you to compromise or
yield TO The world would be nothing In
Jesus hands. Let him fight for you
while you hold your peace. Stand still
(and that is about all we can do any
way) and he will come in with all his
suficiency and we will see the saliva
ton of the Lord.