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In some famous battles, like Waterloo, it was touch-and-go as

to which way it would be; the result was unknown in advance.

But the result here is not unknown—“the kingdom shall be

Jehovah’s”. In your own personal exercises with the Lord,

when you work out which way your footsteps will go and where

your interests will lie, and so on, keep this in mind, that in the

end the Lord’s will is going to prevail, and the happy thing is

for you and me not only to understand it but to be subject to

it—“the kingdom shall be Jehovah’s”.

Well, may the Lord graciously bless these

disjointed thoughts to us. He can put things very concisely and

simply. May He, dear brethren, increasingly govern us, and

also the fact that everything finally is going to be headed up in

Him—“to head up all things in the Christ” (Ephesians 1: 10);

not in you and not in me, and not in John Wesley, not in John

Darby; all is going to be headed up in the Christ.

May the Lord bless the word.

Address at Maidstone

10 December 1988