Joseph Chen

Blessed be the Lord, who day by day loads us with good; / God is our salvation. Selah

From the end of the earth / I will call out unto You / When my heart faints; / Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Psalms 39:4 “O Jehovah, cause me to know my end, / And the measure of my days, what it is. / May I know how transient I am.”

How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in His excellent word! What more can He say than to you He hath said, To you who for refuge to Jesus have fled?

And these much-tempted ones are frequently the most spiritual men, and out of this spirituality comes usefulness. Mr. Greatheart, who led the band of pilgrims up to the celestial city, was a man of many trials, or he would not have been fit to lead so many to their heavenly rest; and you, dear brother, if ever you are to be a leader and a helper, as you would wish to be, in the church of God, it must be by such means as this that you must be prepared for it. Do you not wish to have every virtue developed? Do you not wish to become a perfect man in Christ Jesus? If so, welcome with all joy divers trials and temptations; fly to God with them; bless Him for having sent them: ask Him to help you to bear them with patience, and then let that patience have its perfect work, and so by the Spirit of God you shall become "perfect and entire, lacking in nothing." May the Comforter bless this word to your hearts, for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen.

"But as for me, I will look for Jehovah; I will wait for the God of my salvation; My God will hear me"