Ask yourselves, "Am I this blessed person?"
Do I so live in this world, that others notice the holiness of my walk, and my entire devotion to the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ?
Do I, instead of loving the world, account it a dreary wilderness?
Do I renounce the pomp's and vanities of this wicked world, and the sinful lusts of the flesh? Am I dying unto the world, to its cares, its pleasures, its maxims, its habits, its friendship?
Am I "crucified unto the world, and is the world crucified unto me by the cross of Christ," so that I value it no more than a man does who is in the very throes of death? (Galatians 6:14)
In my passage through this wilderness world, am I leaning constantly on my beloved Savior, saying, "In the Lord I have righteousness and strength!" (Isaiah 45:24)
If these things are true of you, then as your sympathetic high priest, in every time of need, He will be with you:
to counsel you by His wisdom,
to uphold you by His power,
and to enrich you with His benefits!
What an all-sufficient support you have in this dreary wilderness world! Your ever-present Savior shields you, and cares for you, and guards you as the apple of His eye!
[Charles Simeon]
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Song of Solomon 8:5 ... Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
Jude 24... Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,❤
