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" Be not dismayed, for I am thy God." - Isaiah 41:10.

There are many things in this stage of existence that are calculated to fright the souls of men. They are surrounded by dangers. There is hardly anything, no matter how minute and to all appearance contemptible, but may in some hour put on strength enough to kill us. Many a little insect has taken away the life of proud man. We do not know but that the breath we are now breathing may convey some deadly disease to our lungs. Our foot may slip; a blood-vessel may burst; a stone may fall upon us; we may get up in our sleep and fall from a window; a bone may stick in our throat. Men are dying in all these ways. The people of God have other dangers. They are walking in a narrow path. The God of this world is bringing all his cunning and all his resources to bear upon them, in efforts for their overthrow. Terrible is the open wrath of their enemy; not less formidable the blandishments of his disguised agents. The consciousness of sinfulness is paralyzing; and the path of duty seems adapted only for one a hundred times our superior in constancy, wisdom and power. And can it be that there is one consideration which of itself suffices to qualify a believer to look upon all the ills that cluster thick around his pathway, and enables him to go victoriously onward to the end? There is. God is thy God. Thine, if thou hast believed upon his Son. His strength is thine; his wisdom thine; his resources are thine; his vigilance is thine; his omniscience thine. Not that thou becomest omniscient or almighty, but these perfections of the Godhead are available for thee to the full extent of thy necessities. If, then, at any time thou art dismayed, this is the same as saying, God is not equal to the difficulties that environ me. I need more strength than he possesses, more wisdom, more knowledge. I need another God besides him. Oh, utter nothing so dishonoring to the majesty of heaven as this. Beware, and never be dismayed!

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