All The Land Which Thou Seest
The actual provisions of God's grace
come from the inner vision.
He who gives to the bird the
instinct to cross the continent
in search of summer sunshine
in a southern climate is too
good to deceive it.
And just as surely as He has put
the instinct in the breast of the bird,
so has He also put the balmy breezes
and the vernal sunshine there to
meet it when it arrives.
He who gave to Abraham the vision
of the Land of Promise also said
in infinite truth and love:
All the land that thou seest
will I give thee. He who breathes
into our hearts the heavenly hope
will not deceive or fail us when we
press forward to its realization.
There is nothing unfaithful in Him
who has said: If it were not so,
I would have told you (John 14:2),
and we may know that God never
will deceive us or fail us, but all that
He reveals by His Holy Spirit
He will make our own as we
press forward and enter into
its realization.
Lord, give me first the vision
and then the victory.
Show me all my inheritance,
and then give it all to me in Christ Jesus.
A. B. SIMPSON
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