Extract: Need-Be

From: Echoes of Grace: 1941

• 1 min. read • grade level: 6

Not everybody is passing smoothly through this life, though some may be more so than others. But after all, it is only "for a season," and "if need be." Do not make yourself uneasy: the One who holds the reigns of the need-be is God. He does not take pleasure in afflicting. If there is the need-be for it, we go through the trial with Him, but it is only for a moment.

"THOU ART WORTHY... FOR THOU WAST SLAIN, AND HAST REDEEMED US TO GOD BY THY BLOOD OUT OF EVERY KINDRED, AND TONGUE, AND PEOPLE AND NATION: AND HAST MADE US UNTO OUR GOD KINGS AND PRIESTS: AND WE SHALL REIGN OVER THE EARTH." Rev. 5:9, 10⁹And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; ¹⁰And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. (Revelation 5:9‑10)

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