The Ministry of Mighty Arms?

I do remember a letter that was given to me on the day of my baby's funeral. It was from Pastor Martin. Though, there is little that is clear about that day, his letter is clear and his letter assisted me through life to appreciate the ministry of the mighty arms of men around me.
He was absent, because of some providence, but his dear wife, Marilyn held me in her arms and apologized for his absence. In the letter, he bid me to see him as hugging me there at the cemetary.
So many strong men were around to represent the mighty arms of God, that also seemed absent in my distress. I could, as it were, reason from the lesser to the greater in that sorrow. If I could imagine that Pastor Martin were there, when it was Marilyn, I could imagine that God were here, though He too felt so gone. I was comforted by that.
I do bid Godly men to use their might to represent God well on earth, and especially in grief.

Proverbs 8---Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?

verse 22 The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

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I always think of Wisdom, in Chapter 8 of proverbs as the apprentice of the Lord. A sitting student, learning and taking notes of the workings, by which God does all His holy will.

I have changed my mind and think of her,now as a dutiful wife, learning her Lord and rearing His children and giving them the instructions of their father. The woman of bondage, I think,{as Hagar was} often despised by the children, but dutiful in her labors. She has no idea where her offspring will go or what they will do, but her children are taught of the Lord. Wisdom is the principle thing, therefore get wisdom, don't despise her!

The Purchase Price of Redemption is the Purchase of the Love of the Brethren!

When we are not in Christ, we cannot love brethren with a pure love.

Blest be the tie that binds...Our hearts in Christian love,
The fellowship of kindred hearts is like to that above.

The taste of heaven on earth is the purchase of brotherly love, by the blood of Jesus.

We have nurtured our hearts in the world so long that we don't appreciate the deliverance of God from the imaginations of our own hearts that are always evil, and continually.
How wickedly we would use and abuse oneanother, were it not for the instruction of God and the institution of Christian love in the Church. We can love oneanother in the family and we can love the brethren with a more pure love. We can reprove oneanother and correct one another, in love, because of the Blood of a perfect Savior.

He instructs us to be living in the love of Christ with one another. Sisters and Brothers who are from different backgrounds, but have one Father in Heaven, who teaches us how to love oneanother, in family and in the church and in the community. God give us grace to live and love, in the tie that binds us, The Blood of Jesus.