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"Hitherto hath the Lord helped us." - 1 Samuel
7:12
The word "hitherto" seems like a hand pointing in the direction of the past.
Twenty years or seventy, and yet, "hitherto the Lord hath helped!" Through
poverty, through wealth, through sickness, through health, at home, abroad, on
the land, on the sea, in honour, in dishonour, in perplexity, in joy, in trial,
in triumph, in prayer, in temptation, "hitherto hath the Lord helped us!" We
delight to look down a long avenue of trees. It is delightful to gaze from end
to end of the long vista, a sort of verdant temple, with its branching pillars
and its arches of leaves; even so look down the long aisles of your years, at
the green boughs of mercy overhead, and the strong pillars of lovingkindness and
faithfulness which bear up your joys. Are there no birds in yonder branches
singing? Surely there must be many, and they all sing of mercy received
"hitherto. "
But the word also points forward. For when a man gets up to a certain mark and
writes "hitherto," he is not yet at the end, there is still a distance to be
traversed. More trials, more joys; more temptations, more triumphs; more
prayers, more answers; more toils, more strength; more fights, more victories;
and then come sickness, old age, disease, death. Is it over now? No! there is
more yet-awakening in Jesus' likeness, thrones, harps, songs, psalms, white
raiment, the face of Jesus, the society of saints, the glory of God, the fulness
of eternity, the infinity of bliss. O be of good courage, believer, and with
grateful confidence raise thy "Ebenezer," for-
He who hath helped thee hitherto Will help thee all thy journey through.
When read in heaven's light how glorious and marvellous a prospect will thy
"hitherto" unfold to thy grateful eye!
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