Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-05-07

onNoui use lueIn, SPEAKS, saying.
"Stand still and see the salvation of
the Lord-the Lord shall fight for you
and ye 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 to leave the world
and be separate unto the Lord have
found the need for just such deliv.
erer as the text speaks of.
realization of the suficiency of
the Lord brings a calmness and a
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 to |
open the Red sea as to make it what it |
was. AS easy for him to remove the |
mountains with word as to make
them with word. The One who made |
the mountains and the sea could do as
he wished with them. Pharaoh and
his army were no more to him than 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
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 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 suficiency
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 I 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 to go on fighting for
her own until the limits of human en-
durance were reached and passed; but
1t is conceivable that a mother should
forget her child. 1t is inconceivable
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 it 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 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 nc
, more hope of overcoming than ap
, peared to Israel, hemmed in on thai
! road before the Red sea. But the sea
, did open and Israel did go through
7 dry shod and Pharaoh was overcome
. and his power broken. Let this en-
E courage and hearten the tried soul o1
, the believer. That circumstance tha
I seems to force you to compromise OF
, Weld to the world would be nothing II
o Jesus hands. Let him fight for yol
while you hold your peace. Stand still
(and that is about all we can do any
way) and he will come in with all hi;
sufficiency and we will see the saliva
ton of the Lord.