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<p>&quot;God has said—Never will I leave you; never<br />
              will I forsake you.&quot; Hebrews 8:5<br />
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              All the promises of God are faithful and true, <br />
              and have never been forfeited yet. They are <br />
              called precious promises, and while there are <br />
              many particulars which render them such, <br />
              their absolute certainty is one of the chief. <br />
              <br />
              &quot;God has said&quot;—He is not a man that He would <br />
              lie, or change His mind. He with whom saying <br />
              and doing, promising and performing—as far as <br />
              sureness is concerned—are one and the same. <br />
              Man, weak, fickle, faithless man—may deceive <br />
              us; but if we make the Great Unchangeable our <br />
              trust, disappointment is a thing altogether <br />
              impossible. <br />
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              But what has He said? &quot;Never will I leave you; <br />
              never will I forsake you.&quot; The believer is thus <br />
              assured that God will be with him <strong>at all times, <br />
                and under all circumstances</strong>, and that He will <br />
              especially be with him in every time of need. His <br />
              presence shall go with him when he is called to <br />
              the performance of any arduous duties; it shall <br />
              go with him when he has to pass through the <br />
              <em>furnace of affliction</em>; and, above all, it shall go <br />
              with him when he has to enter the dark valley, <br />
              and bid a final adieu to all things here below. <br />
              &quot;Don't be afraid, for I am with you. Do not be <br />
              dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen <br />
              you. I will help you. I will uphold you with My <br />
              victorious right hand.&quot; Isaiah 41:10<br />
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              We might confidently conclude that God will be <br />
              then with the Christian, even had no express <br />
              intimation been given us on the subject. It is <br />
              not likely that He who was with him during the <br />
              whole of his voyage, to preserve him from the <br />
              winds and waves, the rocks and quicksands—will <br />
              forsake him when the vessel is entering the port. <br />
              It is not likely that He who shielded him during the <br />
              heat of the battle—will desert him when the victory <br />
              is about to be won. It is not likely that He who was <br />
              with him through his wanderings in the desert,<br />
              supplying all his needs, delivering him from all his <br />
              enemies, and directing him during the entire course <br />
              of his pilgrimage—will abandon him when he treads <br />
              the verge of Jordan, and beholds beyond its foaming <br />
              billows the brightness and the beauty of the promised <br />
              land. The thing is not for a single moment, to be <br />
              supposed! God's love and compassion, as well as <br />
              His faithfulness and truth, forbid the entertainment <br />
              of such a thought!
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