Child Of GOD, Think What It Is To Have The Kingdom Of Heaven!

It is your Father's good pleasure 
to give you the Kingdom!
(George Mylne, "Fear Not!" 1854)

"Fear not little flock, it is your 
FATHER'S good pleasure 
to give you the Kingdom!" 
Luke 12:32

Reader, are you one of the redeemed flock--
the "holy flock"--the "beautiful flock."
 (Jeremiah13:20, Ezra 36:38.) Then 
the good Shepherd says to you, 

"Fear not!"

I know not what your worldly means 
may be. You may have to work hard 
for your bread, and have a large family 
depending on your labors. Perhaps 
you have known better days, and 
the bread of your humiliation may 
have a bitter taste. 

You may have had great 
expectations which came to 
nothing. Schemes of ambition, 
or prospects of gain, may 
have been blighted. 

Promises of advancement may 
have failed. Your whole life may 
have been one chain of trials:
  trials of poverty;
  trials of bereavement;
  trials of disappointment;
  trials in the family;
  trials enough to break your heart--
if it were not stayed on JESUS. 
But fear not! 

HE has words of comfort to cheer you! 
HE has gold tried in the fire, to make you rich! 
HE has honor and privilege, to make 
amends for all your trials! 
HE says, 

"Fear not little flock, it is your 
FATHER'S good pleasure 
to give you the Kingdom!"

You may have lost much 
that you once possessed. 
You may have failed to have 
all that you desired, or expected 
to have. But, child of GOD, think 
what it is to have the Kingdom 
of Heaven! 

Who is rich--if you are not rich! 
Who is happy--if you are not happy! 
Who is honorable--if you are not glorious! 

Fear not, child of GOD! 
Fear not poverty. Fear not trial. 
Fear nothing which makes you 
feel your dependence upon GOD. 

Envy no man of his possessions, 
his honors, or his pleasures--
you have far more than he has! 

Earthly riches make to 
themselves wings and fly away--
but your riches endure forever. 

Earthly crowns are corruptible--
but your crown is incorruptible. 
Earthly pleasures are but for a moment--
but yours are eternal pleasures at your 
FATHER'S right hand. (Psalm 16:11) 

But, reader, the Scriptures tell us 
that we must go through much 
tribulation to enter into the Kingdom 
of GOD." (Acts 14:22.) 

But your 

"light affliction, which is but for 
a moment, works for you a far 
more exceeding and eternal 
weight of glory!" (2 Corinthians 4:17.) 

Before long, through GOD'S 
sustaining grace, you shall sit 
down with CHRIST on HIS throne! 
(Rev. 3:21.) 

Child of GOD, remember the promise; 
obey the precept; think of the heavenly 
Kingdom, and fear not!

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GraceGems has posted George Mylne's uplifting little booklet, 
"Fear Not!"