HH, Sir Godfrey Gregg D.Div

The Sense of God

The other secret of true courage is a strong and overmastering sense of God. When you get deep enough, I think you always find that in every life that has been brave. When Peter was separated from his Lord for a while, then he denied Him with a fisherman’s curses. With no one near but the soldiers and the servants, he was as a reed shaken with the wind.

But when the Lord came in and looked on Peter, Peter went out into the night and wept; and so repentant, became a man again.

• When I can go to my labours saying God is with me–
• When I can lie on my sickbed saying God is here–
• When I can meet my difficulties saying, This is God–
• When dying I can whisper He is mine–

Then in communion with that power and goodness I am no longer tossed and tempest-driven, but in the storm and shadow, I am strong. It is that conviction Jesus Christ has brought to the weakest heart in the most dreary street. Prophets and psalmists might believe it once, but the poorest soul can believe it now.

To be in communion with God through Jesus Christ and to know that He is ours and we are His. Is the victory which overcomes the world. Such courage is not based on fancied power. It is based on the absolute and the eternal. It is not kindled by any glow of anger. It is kindled and kept by the eternal spirit. So can the weakest dare to stand alone, and dare to live alone, and dare to die alone, saying The best of all is, God is with us.

Hallelujah, and thank you for your patience and pray that you will find comfort in these words.