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Ärende: Acquiring Perseverance
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Faith's Checkbook

November 23

Acquiring Perseverance

"The LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little"
(Deuteronomy 7:22).

We are not to expect to win victories for the LORD Jesus by a single blow. Evil
principles and practices die hard. In some places it takes years of labor to
drive out even one of the many vices which defile the inhabitants. We must
carry on the war with all our might, even when favored with little manifest
success.

Our business in this world is to conquer it for Jesus. We are not to make
compromises but to exterminate evils. We are not to seek popularity but to wage
unceasing war with iniquity. Infidelity, popery, drink, impurity, oppression,
worldliness, error; these are all to be "put out."

The LORD our God can alone accomplish this. He works by His faithful servants,
and blessed be His name. He promises that He will so work. "Jehovah thy God
will put out those nations before thee." This He will do by degrees that we may
learn perseverance, may increase in faith, may earnestly watch, and may avoid
carnal security. Let us thank God for a little success and pray for more. Let
us never sheathe the sword till the whole land is won for Jesus.

Courage, my heart! Go on little by little, for many littles will make a great
whole.

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740 L.M. J. HART
"Blessed be ye poor." Luke 6. 20; Matt. 5. 3

1 Lord, when I hear thy children talk, (And I believe 'tis often true),
How with delight thy ways they walk, And gladly thy commandments do;

2 In my own breast I look and read
Accounts so very different there,
That, had I not thy blood to plead, Each sight would sink me to despair.

3 Needy, and naked, and unclean,
Empty of good, and full of ill,
A lifeless lump of loathsome sin,
Without the power to act or will.

4 I feel my fainting spirits droop; My wretched leanness I deplore;
Till gladdened with a gleam of hope From this, The Lord has blessed the poor.

5 Then, while I make my secret moan, Upwards I cast my eyes, and see,
Though I have nothing of my own,
My treasure is immense in thee.

6 My treasure is thy precious blood; Fix there my heart, and for the rest,
Under thy forming hands, my God,
Give me that frame which thou lik'st best.
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