What do I mean when I say the true Christian is happy? Has he no doubts and no fears? Has he no anxieties and no troubles? Has he no sorrows and no cares? Does he never feel pain, and shed no tears? Far be it from me to say anything of the kind! He has a body weak and is frail like other men; he has affections and passions like everyone born of woman; he lives in an ever changing world. But deep down in his heart, he has a mine of solid peace and substantial joy which is never exhausted! This is true happiness.
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Psalm 119:1
Psalm 119:1 NASB
“How blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord.”
*How blessed or highly favored and truly happy are those…
Favor is from on high. Being connected to the Almighty in sweet fellowship with the Lord makes one blessed and truly happy. These blessed ones are those whose way is blameless. Above reproach.
Meaning: not sinless but by His grace they sin-less. These are those who keep close accounts with their master and who do not let outstanding debts pile up unaccounted for. Their way is blameless. They take full responsibility for their sins and deal with them before their Lord regularly.
Their way is His way in spite of their weaknesses. These are those rare creatures who walk-live by-and are governed by the law of the Lord. They’re no longer under law but by His empowering grace they are enabled to walk in the law of the Lord and because of Jesus they fulfill it.
By: Steve E. Chavez
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To Die Is Gain!
Many persons profess to receive much comfort from the hope that they shall not die. Certainly there will be some who will be “alive and remain” at the coming of the Lord, but is there so very much of advantage in such an escape from death as to make it the object of Christian desire? A wise man might prefer of the two to die, for those who shall not die, but who “shall be caught up together with the Lord in the air,” will be losers rather than gainers. They will lose that actual fellowship with Christ in the tomb which dying saints will have, and we are expressly told they shall have no preference beyond those who are asleep. Let us be of Paul’s mind when he said that “To die is gain,” and think of “departing to be with Christ, which is far better.” This Psalm 23:1-6 is not worn out, and it is as sweet in a believer’s ear now as it was in David’s time, let novelty-hunters say what they will.”
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No Universal Peace Until Christ Appears
Let us not be carried away by the common idea, that the world will be converted before the Lord Jesus returns, and the earth filled with the knowledge of the Lord. It will not be so. There is nothing in Scripture to justify such expectations. Let us cease to expect a reign of peace. Let us rather look for wars. Let us cease to expect all men to be made holy by any existing instrumentality–schools, missions, preaching, or anything of the kind. Let us rather look for the rise of Antichrist Himself. Let us understand that we live in a day of election, and not of universal conversion. There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears. There will be no universal holiness until Satan is bound. It may cost us much to hold such opinions as these. But there is not a church or congregation on earth, whose state does not show that these opinions are true, and that while “many are called, few are chosen.” It may bring on us the unkind remarks and the unfavorable judgment of many. But the end will prove who is right and who is wrong. For that end let us wait patiently. Let us labor, and teach, and work, and pray. But let it not surprise us if we find our Lord’s word strictly true – “Narrow is the way which leads unto life, and few there be that find it.” (Matt. 7:14)
