The Imminent Danger (Pt 19)
2. What we must do
Your part and mine is to watch and pray. Let us pray for ourselves, that we may be found waiting, with our loins girded up, and our lamps burning, that we may be prepared to meet His will in every event. Let us pray for the peace of Jerusalem, for His church, which is dear to Him as the pupil of His eye, for the spread of His Gospel and the extension of His kingdom, till His great name be known and adored from the rising to the setting of the sun, and the whole earth shall be filled with His glory.
Many splendid prophecies are yet unfulfilled, and He is now bringing forward their accomplishment. Light will undoubtedly arise out of this darkness. Let us earnestly pray for a blessing from on high, upon our rulers, upon the counsels of government, and upon all subordinate authority in church and state—that we may lead quiet and peaceable lives in all godliness and honesty, that religion and good order may be established, and iniquity be put to shame and silence. Thus we may hope to be secured, by the sure though secret mark of divine protection.
The Lord will be our shield, though many should suffer or fall around us. The very hairs of our heads are numbered. Or if, for the manifestation of our faith and the power of His grace, He should permit us to share in common calamities, we may rely upon Him to afford us strength according to our day. He is always near to His people, a very present help in the time of trouble; and He can make the season of their greatest tribulations into the season of their sweetest consolations.
John Newton:
The Imminent Danger and Only Sure Resource of Our Nation
from: http://www.chapellibrary.org/
Bhwahstan Rwahks !
The Imminent Danger (Pt 18)
l. What God will do
He who loved you, and died for your sins, is the Lord of glory. All power in heaven and in earth is committed unto Him. The Lord reigneth, let the earth be never so unquiet. All creatures are instruments of His will. The wrath of man, so far as it is permitted to act, shall praise Him and be made subservient to the accomplishment of His great design; and the remainder of that wrath, all their projected violence, which does not coincide with His wise and comprehensive plan, He will restrain. In vain they rage and fret and threaten. They act under a secret commission, and can do no more than He permits them. If they attempt it, He has a hook and a bridle in their mouths. When the enemies would come in like a flood, He can lift up a standard against them. As He has set bounds and bars to the tempestuous sea, beyond which it cannot pass, saying, “Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed” (Job 38:11); so, with equal ease, He can still the madness of the people.
You do well to mourn for the sins and miseries of those who know Him not. But if you make Him your fear and your dread, He will be a sanctuary to you and keep your hearts in peace, though the earth be removed and the mountains cast into the midst of the sea.
