Gleanings 428

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Where believers often fail is that they have not patience to wait on the Spirit of God to be taught any truth; and if it is not brought to them at once, they exercise their own thoughts. But it is better to wait even ten years, saying, I have not yet got light from God's mind. To do otherwise will be like building with a bit of bad stone.
What a remarkable word is that in Ephesians 4:32,32And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. (Ephesians 4:32) " Forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven us." I, a ruined creature, to forgive my brother, because I have been forgiven all.
Two beautiful vases were set in the garden of Eden, and falling on a rock they were dashed to pieces; and just in that ruin, God says, " I can give a Savior, I can forgive all."