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O that I had a thousand voices
to praise my God with thousand tongues! My heart, which in the Lord rejoices, would then proclaim in grateful songs
to all, wherever I might be,
what great things God has done for me.
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End
At the end I would like to say something about two words the Lord said in his promise to those who leave everything behind for the sake of His name: “With persecutions”. There was no lack of these for us, but I do not wish to elaborate on them. Probably they were necessary because it is through afflictions here that we shall enter God’s kingdom. I just want to say with the Lord, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do!”
And further the Lord says, “and eternal life in the age to come.” Not for the sake of their good deeds but by grace! For the sake of what He did! Our deeds are partial, His deeds are perfect!! O, no, Lord Jesus, if I did not have you and if your blood had not been given for the sinners, where should I, the most wretched of the miserable have turned?!! – By grace alone shall I be saved! Yes, by grace alone!!
May 30, 1943 A.H.W. Behrens