If Our Heart Condemn Us Not, Then We Have Confidence Toward God

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not,
then have we confidence toward
God.

1 JOHN 3, verse 21.


O Lord, how happy is the time
When in Thy love I rest:
When from my weariness I climb
E'en to Thy tender breast.
The night of sorrow endeth there,
Thy rays outshine the sun;
And in Thy pardon and Thy care
The heaven of heavens is won.

W. C. DESSLER.


Nothing doth so much establish the mind amidst
the rollings and turbulency of present things,
as both a look above them, and a look beyond them;
above them to the good and steady Hand by which
they are ruled, and beyond them to the sweet and
beautiful end to which, by that Hand, they shall be
brought. Study pure and holy walking,
if you would have your confidence
firm, and have boldness and joy in God.
You will find that a little sin will shake your trust
and disturb your peace more than the greatest
sufferings: yea, in those sufferings, your assurance
and joy in God will grow and abound most if sin be
kept out. So much sin as gets in, so much
peace will go out.

R. LEIGHTON.