When we
read the challenge - "If thou hast run with the
footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst
thou contend with horses? and if in the land of
peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee,
then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?"
(Jeremiah 12:5), then we really wonder, are we
able to follow onward, and come through all of the
increasing pressure and tension of these times?
Will we survive the dealings of God, and become His
inheritance? If it means "by our own strength," the
answer is, "No, we cannot make it." But when we
remember that we are GOD's HANDIWORK, and that He
will refresh us when we are weary, then we commit
ourselves to His keeping, and know His abiding
peace.
He has,
He does, and He will confirm His inheritance. The
word "confirm" is the Hebrew word "hun" which is
literally threefold in its meaning: to be formed,
prepared, established. All of the formation is
His. All of the establishing is His. Yes, the
inheritance is HIS. And Paul prayed that "the
eyes of our understanding being enlightened: that we
may know what is the hope of His calling, and what
the riches of the glory of HIS INHERITANCE in the
saints." (Ephesians 1:18).
Of the
being weary, we need not comment, for this
experience comes to us all, but of the refreshings
which He imparts, in that we rejoice and would hold
before us. For "He that stablisheth us with you
in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; who hath
also sealed us, and given us the earnest of the
Spirit in our hearts." (2 Corinthians 1:21-22).
Confirmations come in many ways, an inner
quickening, a word from a friend, a dream in the
night, a word that leaps from the page as we read
His Word. It matters not the ways and means that
are used, the joy is He knows just when we need that
encouragement, and He will refresh and strengthen,
until we are fully established in Him. "The Lord
will perfect that which concerneth me." (Psalms
1:38:8).