BLESSED PROMISE by M. Wood

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 11, 1879

BLESSED PROMISE.

By M. Wood

“Lo, I am with you alway.” Cheering thought to those who believe in Jesus as an all-sufficient Saviour! Are we cast down and weary of earth? How comforting, how cheering, to hear the Saviour say, “Come unto me, and I will give you rest.” Are we tried and tempted? Do cherished friends forsake us in the hour of need? “Call on me,” whispers Jesus; “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” We may always find a friend in Jesus, one that sticketh closer than a brother. Having once been subject to the same trials himself, he knows how to succor those who are tempted. Does the destroyer enter our households and rudely snatch from our embrace “those we loved most and best”? Earth affords no healing balm for our stricken and bleeding hearts; but the blessed Redeemer offers us the oil of consolation, promising to bring our loved ones again from the land of the enemy, and bidding us look forward with cheering anticipations to the bright morning of the resurrection, when friends long parted again shall meet.

Dear reader, can you spurn such love? Can you reject proffered mercy? Will you still continue to cling to the perishable things of earth, and at last be found among the number who shall utter the despairing cry, “The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and I am not saved”? May God forbid. Let us seek the Lord while he may be found, and call upon him while he is near. “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.” We are urgently invited to share in the coming glory. “The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.”

M. Wood.