by Arthur W. Pink
by Arthur W. Pink
Philologos Religious Online Books
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by Arthur W. Pink
June, 1934
Assurance
There come times when all your past experience seems taken away from you. You can't remember, at least you can't appropriate, you can't realize it. It is as though we had never ate and drank of what Christ gives us. We have no joy with which to rejoice. This is also an experience through which all God's people have come. This is the wonderful thing in the Prophets and Psalms: God does not put before us the image of His saints as they ought to be, but as they were—all their tears and failings and complaints and feelings of desertion and groanings.
I fear many things are said of assurance that never ought to have been said. It is very difficult to speak of assurance, so as not to distress the truly godly, and not to puff up those who think they are rich and have need of nothing. The Lord will satisfy the hungry; He will raise up those that are bowed down; He will feed them just because they are hungry; He will strengthen them, just because they are weak.
After Jacob had gained the victory over Jehovah and been called Israel, how did he go on all his life? Not as a hero triumphant, but he went halting. Many would like always to be singing “hallelujah”! to have entered already the land of promise and glory, to put aside the weapons of their conflict. So was it not with the old saints. Don't you be discouraged when you are weak, when you cry out of the depths in your helplessness, when you experience that there is another law, within you, striving against the Spirit of life within. The Lord is revealing to you your weakness and nothingness. (A. Saphir.)
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