Invisible Progress and Success

In Your majesty ride out victoriously for the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness; let Your right hand teach You awesome deeds! PSALM 45:4 + Invisible Progress and Success Rouse yourself. Do not give in to evils, but go forth more boldly against them. Hold on. Do not be disheartened either by contempt or ingratitude within or by agitation and raging without. But think as follows: "When I am weak, I am strongest (2 Corinthians 12:10); when I am suppressed, I rise up, as a palm rises up under its burden." So they thought that we had perished at Augsburg, but there we rose highest of all. Similarly it is in sorrow, when we are the closest to despair, that hope rises the highest. So today, when there is the greatest contempt and weariness with the ... continue reading