This devotional blessed and encouraged me in regards to the new year. I encourage the saints to press on!
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"So will not we go back from thee..." Psalms 80:18
[i]"Oh, there are heavenly heights to reach
in many a fearful place,
While the poor, timid heir of God
lies blindly on his face;
Lies languishing for light Divine
That he shall never see
'Til he goes forward at Thy sign,
And trusts himsel to Thee."
-Rev. C. A. Fox
When Mallory and Irvine were last seen on Mt. Everest-the highest peak in the world-they were "going strong for the top." Bitter cold, raging winds, blinding blizzards, engulfing avalanches of snow and rock-all these dangers stood between these brave climbers and the top of that towering mountain. Nothing could turn them back!
What a great way to close the old year, and crossing the threshold into the new to say with these heroic climbers, “We will not go back from Thee!”
Let us fare forth bravely, our feet on solid ground, our eyes to the stars, for we walk with Him whose promise is: “Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the age.”
[i]Press on! Surmount the rocky steeps,
Climb boldly o’er the torrent’s arch;
He fails alone who feebly creeps,
He wins who dares the hero’s march.
Be thou a hero! Let thy might
Tramp on eternal snows its way
And through the ebon walls of night
Hew down a passage unto day.
--Park Benjamin
This generation will complete a task of world-evangelization by the youth who were last seen “heading toward to summit.”
[i]”Now must I hence!
Through the thick night I hear
The trumpet blow.” --Tennyson
[size=small][font=Georgia]Onward and Upward![/font][/size]
[i]Taken from Mountain Trailways for Youth by Mrs. Chas. E. Cowman, December 31