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<div class="desc-center"><div class="pad2020">December 26th</div></div>
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God Only, You Can Trust
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Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.
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— <a onClick="return mV('Mat',26,33);">Matthew 26:33</a>
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"Why," cries one, "this is no promise of God." Just so, but it was a promise of man, and therefore it came to nothing. Peter thought that he was saying what he should assuredly carry out; but a promise which has no better foundation than a human resolve will fall to the ground. No sooner did temptations arise than Peter denied his Master, and used oaths to confirm his denial.
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What is man's word? An earthen pot broken with a stroke. What is your own resolve? A blossom, which, with God's care, may come to fruit, but which, left to itself, will fall to the ground with the first wind that moves the bough.
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On man's word hang only what it will bear.
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On thine own resolve depend not at all.
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On the promise of thy God hang time and eternity, this world and the next, thine all and the all of all thy beloved ones.
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This volume is a checkbook for believers, and this page is meant as a warning as to what bank they draw upon, and whose signature they accept. Rely upon Jesus without limit. Trust not thyself nor any born of woman, beyond due bounds; but trust thou only and wholly in the Lord.
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