11. What do we find, strangely enough, when we make the decision to choose God? John 14:27.
NOTE: ‘This peace is not the peace that comes through conformity to the world. Christ never purchased peace by compromise with evil. The peace that Christ left His disciples is internal rather than external and was ever to remain with His witnesses through strife and contention.’ Acts of the Apostles, page 84.
12. What assurance may we have for God’s power to enable us to want to make the right decision? Philippians 2:13.
NOTE: ‘We are not left to do the work alone; “for it is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure.” God works and man works; and as this co-operation is maintained, the richest blessings will come upon those who labour together with God. The Lord says: “To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at My word.” “For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.” “Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”’ Bible Echo, June 1, 1892.