Be of Good Courage, All Ye That Hope in the Lord

November 24.

Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen
your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.

PSALM 31, verse 24.


Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid.

JOHN 14, verse 27.


In heavenly love abiding,
No change my heart shall fear;
And safe is such confiding,
For nothing changes here.

A. L. WARING.


A true Christian, that hath power over his own
will, may live nobly and happily, and enjoy a
clear heaven within the serenity of his own
mind perpetually. When the sea of this world
is most rough and tempestuous about him,
then can he ride safely at anchor within the
haven, by a sweet compliance of his will with
God's will. He can look about him, and with an
even and indifferent mind behold the world
either to smile or frown upon him; neither
will he abate of the least of his contentment
for all the ill and unkind usage he meets withal
in this life. He that hath got the mastery over
his own will feels no violence from without,
finds no contests within; and when God calls
for him out of this state of mortality, he finds
in himself a power to lay down his own life;
neither is it so much taken from him, as quietly
and freely surrendered up by him.

DR. JOHN SMITH.