The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1920-06-17

lot But Moses,
10 comfort and
encourage them. 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 It's
god. Satan. These do not give up vic
Tins without IA struggle, and all who
have ever started 10 leave the world
and be separate unto the Lord have
found the need for Just such a dellv-
erer as the text speaks Of.
realization OF the sufiicIency OF
the Lerd brings calmness and n
quiet Into the soul Of one pressed on
every hand by Satan and his hosts,
which nothing else cnn give. There II
nothing too hard for him for he Is the
Almighty One. AS easy for him to
open the Red sea as 10 make II what II
was. As easy for him 10 remove the
mountains with word as TO make
them with a word. The One who made
the mountains and the sea could do as
he wished with them. Pharaoh and
his army were no more 10 him than n
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 10 him; he Is the Almighty.
II may be asked how II is that so
many OF the Lords people are over.
come and brought back to the world
In bondage ngnin1 Because they have
not learned TO "stand still' and allow
him 90 fight for them. We are forever
mlstrusting the Lord. Fearful lest he
forget rs: 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, "The
| Lord shall fight for you and We shall
hold your peace" oh. that we might
learn 10 "stand still" and allow MIN to
| hght for us; turning the discouraging
and losing battle into 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 sufiiciency
OF our God.
Added confidence and peace come to
us as we think Of the relationship we
sustain 10 him. Just as Israel In that
far of day was his special people so
we are today7perhaps closer than
Israel was. for we are in a 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. lie says. "a mother may forget
/ her sucking child, yet will not forget
thee" IL have loved you with an
everlasting love-" he tells his people.
Who has not heard of n mothers
love urging her TO go on fighting for
her own until the limits Of human en-
durance were reached and passed but
Il is conceivable that mother should
forget her child. II is inconceivable
that he should forget one Of his own.
however feeble that one should be.
even as the sucking child.
What a 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 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 10 force that one back into the
world for relief. There appears no
more hope OF overcoming than APP
peared 10 Israel. hemmed in ON that
road before the Red sea. But the sea
did open and Israel did go through
dry shbd 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 10 compromise or
Yield 10 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 win come In with all his
sufiiciency and we will see the saliva
ton of the Lord.