DISCOURAGEMENTS by J. C. Frauer

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 4, 1900

DISCOURAGEMENTS

By J. C. Frauer

J. C. FRAUER.

(Battle Creek, Mich.)

Of the Saviour the Father had said, “He shall not fail nor be discouraged.” Isa. 42:4. To any child of God it ought to be evident that in God’s vocabulary there can be no such word as fail, and hence no such word as discouragement; for the two are so closely linked together that the former must exist before the latter can be possible. To realize this fact in regard to our Saviour can but help us to become more like him; “for by beholding we are changed.”

Victory is on our side, and was from the beginning an assured fact. We need but to appropriate it to ourselves, by placing ourselves on the right side, which is the Lord’s side, and failure and discouragement will trouble us no more. This will suggest to some minds the query, Can there be any such thing as a discouraged Christian? With all my failures and discouragements vividly before my mind, I must answer, emphatically: No; “ye have not so learned Christ.”

So, then, I reach this conclusion: If Christ could not fail nor be discouraged, on account of his connection with the Father, no more can I, if I retain that same relation to my Saviour, in whom all fullness dwells.