Hold High the Standard {a devotional}
Go
through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast
up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for
the people. Isaiah 62:10.
The
Word of God not only sets forth the great principles of truth and duty
which should govern our lives, but it presents also, for our
encouragement, the history of many who have exemplified these
principles.... Except the one perfect Pattern, there is not described in
the Sacred Pages a single character more worthy of emulation than that
of the prophet Daniel. Exposed in youth to all the allurements of a
royal court, he became a man of unbending integrity and fervent devotion
to God. He was subjected to the fierce temptations of Satan, yet his
character was not vacillating, nor his course changeable. He was firm
where many would be yielding; he was true where they would be false; he
was strong where they would be weak. Daniel was a lofty cedar of
Lebanon.... Would that the faith, integrity, and devotion of the prophet
Daniel might live in the hearts of God’s people of today. Never were
these noble qualities more needed in the world than now....
In
the records of those who have done and suffered for the name of Jesus,
there is no name that shines with a brighter or purer luster than the
name of Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles. The love of Jesus, glowing in
his heart, made him self-forgetful, self-denying. He had seen the risen
Christ, and the Saviour’s image was impressed upon his soul, and shone
forth in his life. With faith, courage, and fortitude, that would not be
daunted by danger or stayed by obstacles, he pressed his way from land
to land to spread the knowledge of the cross....
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