Dear Sister T: I have learned of your affliction,
and hasten to pen a few lines. My dear sister, I have the very
best of evidence that the Lord loves you. In the last view given
me, I was shown your case among others. I saw that you had been
affected in the past with the course of error which others had
pursued; but while strictly conscientious, and ever anxious to
know the right, you were extremely sensitive and viewed your
case as worse than it was.
You have been afflicted with disease for
quite a length of time. You are a nervous dyspeptic. The brain
is closely connected with the stomach, and its power has so often
been called to aid the weakened digestive organs that it is in
its turn weakened, depressed, congested. While in this state,
your mind is gloomy, naturally dwelling upon the dark side, imagining
that the frown of God is upon you. You have thought that your
life has been useless, that it has been filled with errors and
wrong moves. Dear sister, your diseased state of health leads
you to this despondency and discouragement. God has not left
you; His love is yet toward you. I saw that you should trust
in Him as a child trusts itself in the arms of its mother. God
is merciful and kind, and full of tender pity and compassion.
He has not turned His face from you.
You are extremely sensitive. You feel deeply
and have not possessed the power to throw off care, perplexity,
and discouragement of mind. I saw that God would be to you a
very present help if you would only trust yourself with Him;
but you worry yourself out of the arms of your dear, loving Saviour.
"He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for
us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?"
What a precious promise is this! We may claim much of our kind
heavenly Father. Great blessings are in reserve for us. We may
believe in God, we may trust Him, and by so doing glorify His
name. Even if we are overcome of the enemy, we are not cast off,
not forsaken and rejected of God. No; Christ is at the right
hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. "If any
man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the
righteous."
I want to say, my sister, you need not
cast away your confidence. Poor, trembling soul, rest in the
promises of God. In so doing, the enemy's fetters will be broken,
his suggestions will be powerless. Heed not the whisperings of
the enemy. Go free, oppressed soul. Be of good courage. Say to
your poor, desponding heart: "Hope thou in God: for I shall
yet praise Him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God."
I know that God loves you. Put your trust in Him. Think not of
those things which bring sadness and distress; turn from every
disagreeable thought and think of precious Jesus. Dwell upon
His power to save, His undying, matchless love for you, even
you. I know that the Lord loves you. If you cannot rely upon
your own faith, rely upon the faith of others. We believe and
hope for you. God accepts our faith in your behalf.
You have tried to do right, and God is pitiful and compassionate to you. Be cheerful, and bid adieu to gloom and doubts. In indulging these doubts, you dishonor God. There is peace in believing, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Believing brings peace, and trusting in God brings joy. Believe, believe! my soul says, believe. Rest in God. He is able to keep that which you have committed to His trust. He will bring you off more than conqueror through Him who hath loved you. May the Lord bless you and strengthen your trembling faith, is our prayer. We commit these few lines to you, trusting they may do you good.