| The Golden Gate of Prayer |
Chapter 14 |
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We should never shrink from any experience of testing into which duty brings us. If it is the will of God that we should stand where our principles or our character must be tested, we need not hesitate to meet the trial, for we shall have the divine protection.
“Just where you stand in the conflict,
There is your place!
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Gird on your armor! Be faithful
At toil or rest,
Whiche’er it be, never doubting
God’s way is best.
Out in the fight or on picket,
Stand firm and true:
That is the work which your Master
Gives you to do.”
But if we venture into places of temptation when duty does not lead us there, we put ourself outside the divine shelter. One of our Lord’s temptations was that he should cast himself down from the pinnacle of the temple, trusting to the promise of God to give the angels charge concerning him. But to this suggestion our Lord’s reply was, “Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.” This answer implies that the promise of angel protection avails only when we are walking in the way of divine guidance.
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