Now this is a very wonderful privilege entrusted to the disciple of
Christ. To every believer there is entrusted the marvellous ministry of
helping others to receive the energies of divine grace, and to
strengthen them in the fierce combats of their own "evil day." For the
character of our evil days is very varied. Your evil day may not be
mine, and my evil day may not be yours. What makes an evil day for you
may never trouble me, and what makes my day difficult and tempestuous
may leave you perfectly serene. It is to be accounted for in many ways.
The differences in our circumstances account, to some extent, for the
differences in our evil days. The differences in our occupations create
great differences in our daily warfare in the spirit. The differences in
our temperaments make no two persons' battles quite alike. And yet, with
all our differences, we are all called upon to stand in our own evil
day, "and having done all, to stand." Peter's evil day would be very
different from John's. Thomas' evil day would be very different from
Nathanael's. Dorcas' evil day would be quite different to the evil days
which gloomed upon Euodia and Synteche. But blessed be God, by the holy
ministry of prayer we can strengthen one another to "stand in the evil
day." We can help every soldier to keep his spiritual roads open and to
prepare the way of the Lord. We are called upon to be sentinel
suppliants on their behalf, "watching thereunto with all perseverance
and supplication for all saints." We are to be ever on the look-out,
vigilant for the entire army of the Lord, divinely jealous for its
healthy spirit, and seeking for every man in the ranks the grace and
glory which we seek for ourselves. What a magnificent man this true
soldier of the Lord must be!
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