"The Righteous Will Grow Like A Cedar Of Lebanon."

Worm-eaten by secret sin!
(Theodore Cuyler, "Beulah-Land" or, Words of Cheer for Christian Pilgrims)

"The righteous will grow like a cedar of Lebanon; 
planted in the house of the LORD, they will 
flourish in the courts of our GOD. They will still 
bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and 
green." Psalm 92:12-14

He alone is a cedar of CHRIST'S 

training and polishing--

who is sound to the very core! 

For the cedar was famous for its solidity 

of wood. It knew no decay. It afforded 

no asylum to any stealthy insect--

which turned its aromatic wood into 

dust and ashes. So stands every faithful, 

fearless, unflinching, incorruptible Christian! 

They bid defiance to the worm of sin 

while they live, and to the worm 

of calumny when they are dead.

But insidious worms gnaw out the very 

heart of the pretended piety of the false 

professor. When the community is 

shocked by the scandalous sin 

of some prominent man in the church--

it is only the crack of a beam which was 

worm-eaten by secret sin long before!

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GraceGems has published J.R. Miller's insightful article, 
"A Parable of Christian Growth".