God will do great things for His people if they will co-operate with Him. He will work upon the minds of men, so that there will be seen in their lives, even in this world, a fulfillment of the promise of the future state: {8T 78.4} “The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad;And the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing;The glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it,The excellency of armel and Sharon:They shall see the glory of Jehovah,The excellency of our God.Strengthen ye the weak hands, And confirm the feeble knees.Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not:Behold, your God will come with vengeance,With the recompense of God;He will come and save you.Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,And the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.Then shall the lame man leap as a hart,And the tongue of the dumb hall sing;For in the wilderness shall waters break out,And streams in the desert.And the glowing sand shall become a pool,And the thirsty ground springs of water:In the habitation of jackals, where they lay,Shall be grass with reeds and rushes.And a highway shall be there, and a way,And it shall be called The way of holiness;The unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for the redeemed:The wayfaring men, yea fools, shall not err therein.No lion shall be there,Nor shall any ravenous beast go up thereon;They shall not be found there;But the redeemed shall walk there:And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return,And come with singing unto Zion;And everlasting joy shall be upon their heads:They shall obtain gladness and joy,And sorrow and sighing shall flee away.” {8T 78.5}Isaiah 35, A. R. V. | |
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