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The New Life.
keep you. Faith keeps itself occupied only with His
omnipotence.^ Let your faith especially be strengthened
in what God is able to do for you.^ Expect
with certainty from Him that He will do for you
great and glorious things, entirely above your own
strength. See in the Holy Scriptures how constantly
the power of God was the ground of the trust of His
people. Take these words and hide them in your
heart. Let the power of Jesus fill your soul. Ask
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only : What is my Jesus able to do? " What you
really trust Him with, He is able to keep.'
And learn also from Paul where he obtained the
assurance that this power would keep his pledge : it
was in his knowledge ofJesus.
'* I know Him whom
I have believed " therefore : I am assured.* You can
trust the power of Jesus, if you know that He is
yours, if you hold converse with Him as your friend.
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Then you can say : I know whom I have believed :
I know that he holds me very dear : I know and am
assured that He is able to keep my pledge." So
runs the way to the full assurance of faith : Deposit
your pledge with Jesus ;
give yourselves wholly, give
everything, into His hands ; think much on His
might, and reckon upon Him ; and live with Him so
that you may always know who He is in whom you
have believed.
Young disciples of Christ, pray, receive this word
1 Gen. xvii. i, xviii. 14 ;
Jer. xxxii. 17, 27 ; Matt. viii. 27, xxviii.
l8 ; I,uke i. 37, 49, xviii. 27 ;
Rom. iv. 21 ;
Heb. xi. 18.
2 Rom. iv. 21, xiv. 4 ; 2 Cor. ix. 8 ;
2 Tim^. i. 12.
3 John xiii. i ; i Cor. i. 8, 9.
< John X. 14, 28 ; Gal. ii. 20 ; 2 Tim. iv. 18 ; i John ii. 13, 14.
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