June 15

Saturday of the Third Week after Easter

Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of My God. Revelation 3:12.

You will, I hope by God's blessing, have been encouraged this week to fight that good fight of faith. God willeth that you should prevail. He will help you, Who wills to crown you. Only purpose to fight, "looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of your faith." In the Name of Jesus is untold strength. Without Him ye can do nothing; with Him ye can do all things. For He will do all for you. Only He will do it with you, in you, through you, not without you. He has overcome sin once for you, and slain it by His own death. Now, if ye will, He will overcome it in you. When your hearts fail, He will comfort you; when you are weak, He will strengthen you. If amid real strife ye fall, He will lift you up; if ye be faint and weary, He will refresh you. Look to Him, pray to Him, and He will be in life your strength; in death your stay; in eternity, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, "your exceeding great Reward."

Say, happy souls, whose thirst now meets

The fresh and living streams of sweets

Which sprang from that blest throne,

Did you not find this true, even here;

Do you not find it truer there,

Now heaven is all your own?

O yes, the sweets we taste exceed

All you can say, or you can read,

They fill and never cloy.

On earth our cup was sweet but mixed,

Here all is pure, refined, and fixed,

All quintessence of joy.

Hearest thou, my soul, what glorious things

The Church in heaven in triumph sings

Of their blest life above?

Cheer thy faint hopes, and bid them live,

All these to thee thy God will give,

If thou embrace His love.