And the Judge of your work--He is no stern taskmaster, no unfeeling
tyrant, but Jesus Christ, your Lord, who died for you on the Cross. He
knows what is in man. He remembereth that we are but dust. Else the
spirit would fail before Him and the souls which He has made. He can be
touched with the feeling of our infirmities, seeing that He was tempted
in all things like as we are, yet without sin. He can sympathise
utterly; He can make all just allowances; He will judge not by outward
results, but by the inward will and desire. He will judge not by the
hearing of the ear, nor the seeing of the eye, as the shallow cruel world
judges, but He will judge righteous judgment. Trust your cause to Him,
and trust yourself to Him. Believe that if He can sympathise, He can
also help; for from Him, as well as from His Father, proceeds the Holy
Spirit, the Lord and giver of life, the spirit of wisdom and
understanding, the spirit of power and might, the spirit of knowledge and
the fear of the Lord, and He will inspire you to see your duty, and do
your duty, and rejoice in your duty, in spite of weariness and failure,
and all the burdens of the flesh and of the spirit.
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