Read every
morning a portion of his holy word, and lay the divine precepts up
in your heart. He is himself the word of life, and is therefore
present in a more real and saving way to those who reverence and
obey this word than it is possible for him to be to those who do
not.
"Herein will lie your strength. Hence will come your deliverance.
Take hold upon God our Saviour, my friend, and all the powers of
hell shall not prevail against you. You will be tempted, but in the
moment you hear the voice of the tempter look to God and ask him for
strength, and it will surely come. Don't parley, for a single
moment. Let no feeling of security lead you to test your own poor
strength in any combat with the old appetite, for that would be an
encounter full of peril. Trust in God, and all will be safe. But
remember that there is no real trust in God without a life in
harmony with his commandments. All-abiding spiritual strength comes
through obedience only."
Mr. Ridley listened with deep attention, and when the lady ceased
speaking said:
"Of myself I can do nothing. Long ago I saw that, and gave up the
struggle in despair. If help comes now, it must come from God. No
power but his can save me."
"Will you not, then, go to him?"
"How am I to go? What am I to do? What will God require of me?"
He spoke hurriedly and with the manner of one who felt himself in
imminent danger and looked anxiously for a way of escape.
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