{"id":4200,"date":"2024-06-24T22:45:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T22:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=4200"},"modified":"2024-06-24T22:45:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T22:45:16","slug":"the-christians-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=4200","title":{"rendered":"The Christian&#8217;s Confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A very good friend of ours passed away last week. Although we don\u2019t mourn for him, yet he has left a very big hole behind, and his family will miss him very much. He was very much ready to go, having made his peace with his Maker many years ago. &nbsp;I am sure he would be saying to us, the words of this following poem right now\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do not Mourn!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do not know the way I\u2019ll go,  If short and fast, or pain so slow,                        I pray the Lord will help me bear,   Whate\u2019er He plans for me while there; And when I\u2019ve gone, I do not need,   A fanfare of my work or deed;              All I say is simply this,   I\u2019m with the Lord in heaven\u2019s bliss.                           And so my friend, no need to mourn,    Or feel bereft or all forlorn,              For I\u2019ve had fun, enjoyed it all;     And now I\u2019ve heard my Lord\u2019s sweet call.   I\u2019m more alive than e\u2019er before,    Enjoying life NOW, more and more!       For those\u00a0 today, who hear this now,  I ask, have you before Him ever   bowed<em>?<\/em>                                                                                                                         For if you have, I\u2019ll see you when,   Your turn comes, as to all men;              Oh do not wait, but choose today,          To follow God in all your ways!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A very good friend of ours passed away last week. Although we don\u2019t mourn for him, yet he has left a very big hole behind, and his family will miss him very much. 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