Fear Not, I Am Thy Salvation
January 15.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification.
1 THESSALONIANS 4, verse 3.
Between us and Thyself remove
Whatever hindrances may be,
That so our inmost heart may prove
A holy temple, meet for Thee.
LATIN MISSAL OF 15TH CENTURY.
Bear, in the presence of God, to know thyself.
Then seek to know for what God sent thee
into the world; how thou hast fulfilled it; art
thou yet what God willed thee to be; what
yet lacketh unto thee; what is God's will for
thee now; what thing thou mayest now
do, by His grace, to obtain His favor, and
approve thyself unto Him. Say to Him,
"Teach me to do Thy will, for Thou art my God,"
and He will say unto thy soul, "Fear not; I am
thy salvation." He will speak peace unto thy
soul; He will set thee in the way; He will bear
thee above things of sense, and praise of man,
and things which perish in thy grasp, and give
thee, if but afar off, some glimpse of His own,
unfading, unsetting, unperishing brightness
and bliss and love.
E. B. PUSEY.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification.
1 THESSALONIANS 4, verse 3.
Between us and Thyself remove
Whatever hindrances may be,
That so our inmost heart may prove
A holy temple, meet for Thee.
LATIN MISSAL OF 15TH CENTURY.
Bear, in the presence of God, to know thyself.
Then seek to know for what God sent thee
into the world; how thou hast fulfilled it; art
thou yet what God willed thee to be; what
yet lacketh unto thee; what is God's will for
thee now; what thing thou mayest now
do, by His grace, to obtain His favor, and
approve thyself unto Him. Say to Him,
"Teach me to do Thy will, for Thou art my God,"
and He will say unto thy soul, "Fear not; I am
thy salvation." He will speak peace unto thy
soul; He will set thee in the way; He will bear
thee above things of sense, and praise of man,
and things which perish in thy grasp, and give
thee, if but afar off, some glimpse of His own,
unfading, unsetting, unperishing brightness
and bliss and love.
E. B. PUSEY.
