CT 11:23{Cleaving to the Lord is not a mere terrified clinging for safety—it is the bright, brave resolution, strengthened, not weakened, by the sight of waverers or renegades, to be on His side, come what may, because He is our King, because we love Him, because His cause and His kingdom are so very dear to us. We cannot thus cleave, without loosening from other interests. But what matter! Let us be noble for Jesus, like the men of might who "separated themselves unto David," and who "held strongly with him in his kingdom." Shall we be mean enough to aim at less, when it is our Lord Jesus who would have us entirely "with Him"? It is, after all, the easiest and safest course. The especial friends and "the mighty men which belonged to David," not only did not follow the usurping Adonijah, but they were never tempted to do so. "But me, even me thy servant... hath he not called." There is many a temptation, very powerful and dangerous to a camp-follower, which the enemy knows it is simply useless to present to one of the bodyguard. Our Father leads us "not into temptation," when He leads us closer to Jesus.
Unfurl the Christian standard, and follow through the strife
The noble army who have won the martyr's crown of life;
Our ancestors could die for Truth, could brave the deadly glow,
And shall we let the standard fall, and yield it to the foe?