"THE LORD SHALL FIGHT FOR YOU." With God victory is never in doubt. But we must be on the move. In the Lord's army, there is no standing still. Our Captain's command is, "Go forward." This is our direction. "Go forward" in the Lord's way, in the Lord's work, for the Lord's kingdom. The command contains great encouragement. Go forward, remembering the Lord's wisdom, trusting in the Lord's power, and believing in the Lord's love. Go forward in union with the Lord's people, with zeal for His glory, until summoned into your Master's presence. Go forward, notwithstanding difficulties, fears, and discouragements. Go forward, because God has bidden you; He has promised to go with you; He will crown your journey's end. Let us imitate the holy apostle Paul, who said, "Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which I am also apprehended of Christ Jesus." Let us look for and hasten unto the coming of the day of God. There is nothing behind worth a thought, if compared with what is set before us by the gospel.

For Meditation:
Much in sorrow, oft in woe,
Onward, Christian, onward go;
Shrink not, fear not, dare not yield,
Never quit the battlefield:
Forward press and win the prize,
Then to endless glory rise.