Sound Words for Pilgrims

"If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be." (John 12:26)

Take Thou our hearts, and let them be 

For ever closed to all but Thee;

Thy willing servants let us wear  The seal of love for ever there.

Ah, Lord ! enlarge our scanty thought, 

To know the wonders Thou hast wrought;

Unloose our stammering tongues to tell  Thy love, immense, unsearchable.

DESZLER

I AM learning that no servant can lead another beyond the measure of his own grace ... The Spirit honors the word spoken where it has been effectual in the speaker.

Surely if I propound grave things --- the gravest --- and am not deeply affected myself, I cannot expect my word to produce in my hearers a greater effect than it has produced on myself.

I believe that in conversion it is a great thing to have a good beginning; and a good beginning is always marked with deep repentance.  If repentance does not mark the beginning, there is not depth in the conversion.

There are no people so hard to teach as those who imagine that they are more advanced than they are.

It is within the power of the feeblest and humblest to take such an interest in one another as to give the sense of Christ's love ... But then, to serve one another truly, we must get rid of self.

If in the world no man of ability surrenders because of the difficulties to be encountered --- be he soldier or lawyer --- how much less should the man of God surrender because of difficulties.  Difficulties to faith are God's opportunities.

Whatever God is most set for, Satan is most set against.

I believe every one ought to help, as far as in him or her lies, to rescue souls, and I think the more you are in concert with the heart of Christ, the more you will do so.  I often say, If I were very near Him I could not get alongside a sinner without telling him of a Saviour, or a saint without telling him of Christ his life in heaven.

I know very well that a servant has to go through much in order that he might be fit for his Master's use.  No real servant graduates early.

I find that it was easier to get Israel out of Egypt than to get them into Canaan.  Each step in advance evokes more opposition than the previous step; but then God is more and more to us as we advance, and this is everything to the devoted heart. 

"When I am weak, then am I strong"  It must ever be a losing on man's side when it is gaining on Christ's side.

I desire that the Lord may give you a higher line of service, and that you may be assured by Him that He wants you to be more His "friend".  It is not great acts which convey the assurance of the greatest love.  The greatest love of all can say, "The very hairs of your head are all numbered".  The more minute the attention the greater the true love and interest.

--- J.B.S.