Our Enemies’ Powerlessness
By D. L. Moody
IN the second century, they brought a martyr before a king. The king wanted him to give up Christ and Christianity, but the man spurned the proposition. The king said, “If you don’t do it, I will banish you.” The man smiled, and answered, “You can’t banish me from Christ, for He says He will never leave me nor forsake me.” The king got angry, and said, “Well, I will confiscate your property.” And the man replied, “My treasures are laid up on high; you can not get them.” The king became still more angry, and said, “I will kill you.” “Why,” the man answered, “I have been dead forty years; I have been dead to the world, and my life is hid with Christ in God, and you can not touch it.” And so, let persecution come, we can rejoice continually; for our inheritance is sure, reserved for us unto the day when He who is our life shall appear, and we shall appear with Him in glory.—D. L. Moody.