Greetings to all in the Lord. It's been a long time, almost two years since I last posted but I have never left Sermonindex and has been quietly receiving so much from all of you here.
Just want to share this writing of Ruth Bryan and hope you will be blessed as I have.
September 16th.
—I have had a sweet meditation on the miracles of our Lord. I saw how in the first Adam every part and power were broken by the fall—and this is shown by the blind eyes, deaf ears, lame feet, withered hand, palsied limbs, maddened brain, leprous flesh, etc.,
which were brought to the second Adam;
"and He healed them all,"
for He was in all senses the Restorer of the breach,
and was manifested in flesh for this very purpose,
to destroy the works of the devil.
These diseases of the different parts of the body which He healed, seem to show what I feel spiritually—even so maimed and broken,
that I cannot use this body for His service as I would;
and I feel sweetly encouraged to bring each diseased part (every one is diseased) to Him, that,
having quickened me from the dead,
He would so dwell in me that my members shall be instruments of righteousness,
and by His own healing power overcome the dry and barren land; that
while sin dwells within, it may in no part reign over me.
I feel that "without You I can do nothing!" I may, by the Spirit's enabling, come to Him by faith,
and find also, "I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me."
I have heard it said, that our dear Lord living so many years in seclusion, shows the hidden life of the believer.
This is very sweet to me, and I see that those works which are manifest must, if they are worth anything, flow from that hidden life, and the power of God therein.
-Ruth Bryan
For in Him we live, and move,and have our being...(Acts 17:28)
In Him,
Sing Ming