11. If He will be with us
Now there are few promises of the Lord that are more repeated in the Bible, than that He will be with the people who belong to Him and trust in Him. To his people He promised it: “I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.”(Isaiah 43)
What is promised herein, is clearly not that you who belong to the Lord, will escape the deep waters of tribulation and the flame of depuration, but surely that, if things are meant to be for you, you do not have to fear, and to shrink from them, or to deviate from your course. Let them be coming; meet them fearlessly; they will not put you underneath! Because you are in your wrestling with them not alone. “I am with you.”
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