Daily Devotionals

Bowen's Daily Meditations

Devotional: June 20th

"Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart." - Psalms 31:24.

Before you are conscious of any strength in your heart, while you feel yourself exceedingly weak and utterly incompetent, even then you are to be of good courage. It requires very little true courage to be bold when there is the consciousness of strength. The courage that is well-pleasing in the sight of God, is the courage of faith; the courage of David, whose sling and stone were nothing, but who trusted simply in God.

Nothing is more essential to the Christian than good courage. He needs in the first place courage to go into the presence of his sovereign, nothing daunted, however much humbled, by the thought of his unworthiness, assured that all the virtue of Christ is available for him. He needs courage to cancel the various articles of the compact of sin between him and the world; to come out from it and be separate; to be peculiar; to confess that he has transferred his allegiance to the crucified and risen one. He needs courage to break with the god of this world, and adopt the badge of the revolutionists who are seeking his overthrow. He needs courage to speak to those whom he loves, of their great need. He needs courage to manifest the new and better nature that has been given him. He needs it to advance in a path of duty where there is no pioneer, with only a chart for the day, and no intimation of the morrow’s perils.

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