That is the peace of God. ’Tis neither good for man nor beast.”, This is that ill wind which seems to blow no man any good. Down with the Afghans, down with the Zulus! I ask for grace that I may will it, because thou wiliest it.” This voluntary submission to our Father’s appointment is the peace of God. Since the loss of that property, you have found out that earthly investments are insecure. The Boers— destroy them! Whatever is done in almsgiving and charity should be gratefully and heartily received. Especially who that accomplished anything for Church or State ever escaped it? If you lose your peace with God you lose your power to judge under difficulties; you lose your power of self-control under provocations, you lose the best sovereign that ever held a sceptre. When souls are being won, when the gospel is being enjoyed, when Christ is being glorified, when the church is marching on, conquering and to conquer through the divine power that is in her, then is there peace within her borders, and her citizens are filled with the finest of the wheat. But trouble, with hand mightier and more skilful than Hogarth’92s, pictures the falling, failing, moldering world. See what I have to suffer through it at times.” Suppose my knee should say, “I will not have it. Oh, my Christian friend! Those people who are for putting down all kings and principalities and powers may bid farewell to peace. If we live in mutual gratitude, feeling that we are, each one of us, indebted to all others, how merrily will the household wheels go round, and what families of love we shall all gather around us! I have to tell you that the hardest, sharpest, most cutting, most piercing sorrows of this life may be made to bloom and blossom and put on bridal festivity. These descriptions reveal the attitude of the east wind and how it can affect lives negatively especially from the spiritual perspective. Well is it called the peace of God. "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”— Romans 5:1. I cannot help saying, “God bless you.” Surely the wind is changing a point or two: we shall find it blowing from another quarter when we leave this Tabernacle. Made him the keeper of the corn-cribs of Egypt. Set them all ringing a marriage-peal, if you like,— “Be ye thankful! There is lion in him, and there is serpent in him; there is tiger in him, and there is wolf in him; there is dog in him, and there is devil in him. When you love your fellow Christians so that their faults are covered by your charity, and you rather admire their excellences than publish their infirmities, then it is that God is glorified by you. Well, that is difficult; but still the task of taking spots out of leopards would be small compared with the miracle of taking evil out of the very core of our wild-beast-like heart, and putting into it the peace of God that makes us love. Very briefly, I want, in the third place, to say, STRENGTHEN YOURSELF, dear friend, BY GOD’S SPIRIT, WITH ARGUMENTS, in order that you may let the peace of God rule in your hearts, and may be kept from any breach of that heavenly peace. I suppose God lets the east wind blow just hard enough to drive us into the harbor of God’92s protection. Bawls aloud. What was the matter with the Dean of Carlisle? Since you lost your health, you feel as never before a rapt anticipation of eternal release. In order to there being any peace in the heart, or anywhere else, there must be a ruler. After calling him by a nickname indicative of a physical defect in the eye, it goes on to say: ’93Here the preacher clasps his chin on the pulpit cushion. God is not going to allow you to be overthrown. The East Wind. His voice ended all debate. Gladly would I be a peace-maker, but it is much easier to make a snarl than to put it straight again, especially in the east wind. I will give thanks and sing. By God’s good Spirit enter into this serene haven. That prying eye looked sharply at me the other day and spied out a spot; I will put it out”? First, POSSESS THE PEACE OF GOD— “Let the peace of God rule in your hearts.” It cannot rule in your hearts if you have never felt its power; therefore, make certain that you are truly reconciled to God by Jesus Christ. (Hosea 13:15) I wonder why you treat me so lovingly. Man by nature is worse than any one wild beast, for he is a menagerie. What a time you had with that old business partner! He who, wherever he goes, acts like a carrion crow, that soars aloft with no other design than finding out where a carcase may be, that he may light upon it,— he, I say, is not a man after God’s own heart, neither will he advance the Lord’s work among men. Oh, that the Spirit of God would come upon the churches, and turn them into masses of fire; then they would not fall to pieces through intestine strife! Showed him the shining gates of the city. Although he may flourish among rushes, the east wind shall come, a blast from the Lord, rising from the wilderness; and his fountain shall dry up, his spring shall be parched. I believe that if a man is walking with God in the light, and enjoying full fellowship with heaven, he may go down into any meeting, however turbulent— into any society, however discordant the elements may be— and yet he will be wise to answer, wise to be silent, wise to do, or wise not to do; for the peace of God will keep him calm and quiet. And I have to tell you that though Christian character puts forth its sweetest blossoms in the darkness of sickness, the darkness of financial distress, the darkness of bereavement, the darkness of death, ’93Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.’94 Across the harsh discords of this world rolls the music of the skies’97music that breaks from the lips, music that breaks from the harps and rustles from the palms, music like falling water over rocks, music like wandering winds among leaves, music like carolling birds among forests, music like ocean billows storming the Atlantic beach: ’93They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat; for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.’94 I see a great Christian fleet approaching that harbor.
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