Praise the Lord for His faithfulness, His wonderful grace, and His marvelous mercy. I had a call at 7:00 this morning from India. I spoke with my brother, Patel, who was acquitted and exonerated, and has been released from jail. He was in jail for 12 1/2 months, after being falsely accused by Hindu extremists. Our Lord is sovereign and He is mighty to save.
I had my last of 38 treatments this morning. Thank you for praying fervently and faithfully. Many of you have written personally but I am unable to respond to each individually, so please accept this as my heartfelt gratitude for your love, caring, and praying.
I was reading this morning from Revelation 7. It is one of the most thrilling and explosive passages in all of Scripture. "After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no man could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, 'Salvation belongs to our God who sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb!' And all the angels stood round the throne and round the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, 'Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God for ever and ever! Amen.'" (Revelation 7:9-12)
This amazing passage speaks of the fact that in victory the Lord's faithful stand before God and the Lamb. As we read, they have come through great tribulation, trials, and tears. The miracle of the event is that the redeemed of the Lord do not appear to be weary, battered, bloody, beaten, or worn. They arrive conquering and victorious. Their garments are white robes, symbolic of victory and purity. For the Christian who endures to the end, the end is victory. The jubilant shout of the triumphant faithful ascribes salvation to our God. It is our God who has brought them through their trials, their tribulations, and their distresses. It is His power which has upheld and undergirded them. Our Lord God is a great Savior, wonderful Rescuer, and awesome Deliverer of His people. The deliverance He gives is the greatest deliverance of all, for it is not the deliverance of escape, but of conquest. It does not save man from trouble, but it brings him triumphantly through trouble. It does not make life easy, but it makes life great. Through triumph the Lord gives us great joy.
May Jesus be praised.
"No heart is pure that is not passionate, and no virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic." - Paul Henry Thiry d'Holbach
In Christ,
Brown
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