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Devotional: September 12th

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"The Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted." - Isaiah 49:13.

Perhaps throughout the wide domains of God, there is hardly any sight more remarkable than that presented by the little flock of believers who, in this world of iniquity and of misery where Satan’s seat is, regard the Lord as their King and are kept by him through faith unto salvation. Their existence is a marvel; their peace and joy another; their triumphs another. They are without a visible Leader, and have no visible Comforter; yet they pursue their way and have an invincible hope.

The Lord comforts his people, ordinarily, not by changing the course of his providence, not by crowning them with an outward prosperity, but by opening their heart to attend unto the precious declarations of his word. The Spirit is the Comforter, and he is the Spirit of truth. Christ prayed that the cup might be taken away from him; but afterward we hear him saying, " The cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?" The Father answered his prayer by some inward memorial of his goodness, and the cup just now so dreadful is taken cheerfully and with unfaltering hand by the Saviour. When the soul is in some deep distress it imagines that nothing less than the removal of the very cause of the distress will ever comfort it; but God prefers to show his power to sustain and bless the soul in the midst of the trying providence. He is glorified when the believer is delivered from his gloom without being delivered from that which caused the gloom. This finds itself vanquished when it seems to be most triumphant; and is utterly at a loss to understand how its instruments of torture should produce no longer any pain.

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