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Skriven 2005-05-18 03:25:16 av Bob Hoffman (8:8/2)
Ärende: Losses Overcome
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From: "Bob Hoffman" <bhoffman@fmlynet.org>

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      Wednesday 05-18 / Losses Overcome
      Robert Prodoehl
      May 17, 2005


Losses Overcome

"And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten" (Joel 2:25).

Yes, those wasted years over which we sigh shall be restored to us. God can
give us such plentiful grace that we shall crowd into the remainder of our days
as much of service as will be some recompense for those years of unregeneracy
over which we mourn in humble penitence. The locusts of backsliding,
worldliness, lukewarmness, are now viewed by us as a terrible plague. Oh, that
they had never come near us! The LORD in mercy has now taken them away, and we
are full of zeal to serve Him. Blessed be His name, we can raise such harvests
of spiritual graces as shall make our former barrenness to disappear. Through
rich grace we can turn to account our bitter experience and use it to warn
others. We can become the more rooted in humility, childlike dependence, and
penitent spirituality by reason of our former shortcomings. If we are the more
watchful, zealous, and tender, we shall gain by our lamentable losses. The
wasted years, by a miracle of love, can be restored. Does it seem too great a
boon? Let us believe for it and live for it, and we may yet realize it, even as
Peter became all the more useful a man after his presumption was cured by his
discovered weakness. LORD, aid us by Thy grace.

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Baptism. Luke 12. 50; John 15. 14

1 Jesus, we thy name adore;
Thine the kingdom is and power;
Thou shalt reign on Zion's hill;
We would gladly do thy will.

2 Thou hast bought our souls with blood, And hast brought us home to God.
We would gladly thee obey,
In thy own appointed way.

3 [We through grace are dead indeed, And from our old husband freed,
But are married to the Lord,
And would gladly do his word.]

4 Thou didst sink in floods of wrath, Us to save from guilt and death;
And with such a scene in view,
We would thy commandments do.

5 Thou hast claimed us as thy bride; Keep us near thy wounded side;
Dead to every lord but thee,
We would fain obedient be.

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