Glad In The Lord

[Thompson, Darryl]

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for January 28
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Glad In The Lord

My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord . Ps.
104:34.

Rest yourself wholly in the hands of Jesus. Contemplate His great love,
and while you meditate upon His self-denial, His infinite sacrifice made
in our behalf in order that we should believe in Him, your heart will be
filled with holy joy, calm peace, and indescribable love. As we talk of
Jesus, as we call upon Him in prayer, our confidence that He is our
personal, loving Saviour will strengthen, and His character will appear
more and more lovely. . . . We may enjoy rich feasts of love, and as we
fully believe that we are His by adoption, we may have a foretaste of
heaven. Wait upon the Lord in faith. The Lord draws out the soul in
prayer, and gives us to feel His precious love. We have a nearness to
Him, and can hold sweet communion with Him. We obtain distinct views of
His tenderness and compassion, and our hearts are broken and melted with
contemplation of the love that is given to us. We feel indeed an abiding
Christ in the soul. . . . Our peace is like a river, wave after wave of
glory rolls into the heart, and indeed we sup with Jesus and He with us.
We have a realizing sense of the love of God, and we rest in His love.
No language can describe it, it is beyond knowledge. We are one with
Christ, our life is hid with Christ in God. We have the assurance that
when He who is our life shall appear, then shall we also appear with Him
in glory. With strong confidence, we can call God our Father. Whether we
live or die, we are the Lord's. His Spirit makes us like Jesus Christ in
temper, and disposition, and we represent Christ to others. When Christ
is abiding in the soul the fact cannot be hid; for He is like a well of
water springing up into everlasting life. We can but represent the
likeness of Christ in our character, and our words, our deportment,
produces in others a deep, abiding, increasing love for Jesus, and we
make manifest . . . that we are conformed to the image of Jesus Christ.

>From Devotional: Our Father Cares, p. 36, 37.