6. He who thinks he knows everything will miss the joy of finding out new
truth. Souls conscious of ignorance will be taught by the Lord, and rejoice as
they learn. Earnest prayer frequently leads to assured confidence. The church
pleaded that the Lord Jesus might win the victory in his great struggle, and
now by faith she sees him saved by the omnipotent arm. She evidently finds a
sweet relish in the fragrant tide of “anointed”; she thinks of him as ordained before all worlds to his great work,
and then endowed with the needful qualifications by being anointed by the
Spirit of the Lord; and this is evermore the choicest solace of the believer,
that Jehovah himself has anointed Jesus to be a Prince and a Saviour, and that
our shield is thus the Lord’s own anointed. God’s holiness and power will both
come to the rescue of the Saviour in his conflict, and surely these two
glorious attributes found congenial work in answering the sufferer’s cries.
Since Jesus was heard, we shall be; God’s strength is in the hand which is most
used and which is used most readily—the right hand. What encouragements are
these for pleading saints!
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