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Daily Devotionals
Bowen's Daily Meditations
" Thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." - 1 Corinthians 15:57.
" Fear not, little flock, it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom." There are two parties in this world; one consisting of the cross-bearers, the other consisting of the unconverted. In numbers the former are very few. If we sift the nations reputed Christian, correcting our own conceptions by the standard of Christ, the numbers will diminish faster than the army of Gideon. They are indeed a little flock. It may be that they do not exceed, even in this our day, one in a hundred of the population of the globe.
They were once fewer than they now are; and we have thus two wonders; one that they have succeeded in maintaining their footing upon the shore of this world; another that they should have an inviolable promise to the effect that they will actually obtain the victory and sit down upon the vacated thrones of the earth. For there is no special prowess to compensate for the paucity of their number; there are no advantages of rank; no superiority of discipline. The world thinks itself able to crumple them up as a piece of paper. There is no obvious reason why they should not be crushed at any moment. In fact the world has often trodden them under its heel, and exclaimed with a sense of relief, " There, they are gone;" but the next moment they were found springing up again in some quarter. The world has gained ever so many overwhelming victories over them; and is exceedingly provoked to find that it is none the better for all its victories. The Church unbrokenly lives on.
In fact what seem to the world to be its victories, are the victories of the Church. For Christ’s people are fighting the fight of faith. They have no weapons of their own, but the stars in their courses fight for them. When persecuted most, they are most strong in faith; and when they are strong in faith, all things fight for them, even the heavens above and the earth beneath.
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