Scriptural Sanctification - Media Sabda Org

To the further questions, "Have there been no lapses? has the witness never been clouded? has
there never been a time when there was a consciousness of not pleasing God' during those sixteen
years and more? Dr. Levy replies: 'A determination to be honest with myself and true to God
compels me to acknowledge that twice, perhaps thrice, has the light been withdrawn, and I have
walked mournfully before the Lord.' But he assures us that those periods of darkness were of short
duration. He says:
"There was no effort, as in his early experience, to patch up or mend what had become soiled or
broken. Faith again laid hold of the precious promise, 'If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just
to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.' The answer came. The witness
was renewed. The communion was restored."
The following is very plain and encouraging to the faint-hearted:
"And now, understanding better than before how he may be blameless, and yet not faultless, he
has a keener sense of his own weakness, and of Christ's power to save to the uttermost. The devil
tempts, but He delivers. The world brings tribulation, but He overcomes the world for him. Dark
clouds often appear, but He sets a bright light in them, or stretches over them the rainbow of his
peace. Men frown, and friends grow strange and cold, but for every frown or slight He gives a fresh
smile. The happy art has been discovered, how to be at peace amid war, to possess sweetness amid
bitterness, to be strong amid weakness, to be rich amid poverty, to be indifferent to the opinion of
others amid the deepest concern for their souls, to be dead amid the bliss of life. 'O Lord God of
hosts, blessed is the man that putteth his trust in thee!"
Dr. Levy's experience strikingly illustrates the teachings of Fuller, Judson, Gordon, Murray,
Meyer, and other well-known and most spiritual and useful Baptist ministers. May it prove helpful
to the many believers whose experience is not satisfactory! We are profoundly convinced of the
substantial if not the literal truth of this record of it.
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