The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1920-07-22

= ssssszsE sssssssess -- --$2=-2 to comfort and
encourage them. speaks. saying:
"Stand still and see the salvation or
the Lord-the Lord shall hght 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 all who
have ever started 10 leave the world
and be separate unto the Lord have
found the need for just such deliv-
erer as the text speaks Of
A realization of the suiIiciency OF
the Lord brings a calmneSs and
quiet into the soul Of one pressed on
every hand by 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 10
| open the Red sea as 10 make it what II
| was. As easy for him to remove the
mountains with a word as to make
, them with word. The One who made
| the mountains AMI the sen could do as
he wished with them. Pharaoh and
"a
few feeble insects upon the face of the
earth. AS easy for him to overcome
one as the other. Whatever the OBJ
| stacle or whatever the might and
power Of the opposition makes little
difference TO 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
mstruSting the Lord Fearful lest Ne
forget us; we must he up and doing
in order 10 deliver ourselves Because
Of the legal tendency of our natures
we adopt the worlds motto and think
that ''the LorG helps those who help
themselves" But the text says, "The
Lord shall fight for you and We shall
hold your peace" Oh, that we might
learn to stand still' and allow MIN to
fight for us; turning the discouraging
and losing battle into a glorious vic
tory for him and the path of deliver
ance for ourselves! In these days
when there seems TO be such increase
in 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 sufficiency
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 everlastiN
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 q mothers
love urging her to 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. 1t Is lnconceivable
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 approaches the mother hen puts
herself between ii 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 i'm its sweetness-the Lord
shall fight for you and ye shall hold
your peace.
Satan Is expert in 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 ap-
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
sufiiciency and we Will see the saliva
tlon of the Lord.