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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

It is the truth which is assailed in any age which tests our fidelity. It is to confess we are called, not merely to profess. If I profess, with the loudest voice and the clearest exposition, every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christianity. Where the battle rages the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battle-field besides is mere flight and disgrace to him if he flinches at that one point (Fritz - German Monk and contemporary with Martin Luther).
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Be much alone with God. Do not put Him off with a quarter of an hour morning and evening. Take time to get thoroughly acquainted. Talk everything over with Him. Pour out every thought, feeling, wish, plan, and doubt to Him. He wants converse with His creatures. Shall His creatures not want converse with Him? He wants, not merely to be on “good terms” with you, if one may use man’s phrase, but to be intimate. Shall you decline the intimacy and be satisfied with mere acquaintance? What! Intimate with the world, with friends, with neighbors, but not with God? That would look ill indeed. Folly, to prefer the clay to the potter, the marble to the sculptor, this little earth and its lesser creatures to the mighty Maker of the universe, the great “All and in all!”
Horatius Bonar

Bible – English_World – Psalms Chapter 16:1-11.

Index: World English Bible

 

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16:1 <> Preserve me, God, for in you do I take refuge.

16:2 My soul, you have said to Yahweh, “You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing.”

16:3 As for the saints who are in the earth, They are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.

16:4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink-offerings of blood I will not offer, Nor take their names on my lips.

16:5 Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

16:6 The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. Yes, I have a good inheritance.

16:7 I will bless Yahweh, who has given me counsel. Yes, my heart instructs me in the night seasons.

16:8 I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

16:9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety.

16:10 For you will not leave my soul in Sheol, Neither will you allow your holy one to see corruption.

16:11 You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forevermore.