Comfort and Confidence

“Much comfort and great confidence must this administer to all that have assurance that they are of this body [i.e., Body of Christ]; for having so mighty, so wise, so merciful a head, a head so sufficient every way, who can instruct, direct, guide, govern, protect, and help them in all their needs whatsoever, what need they fear? When we are assaulted by Satan, or any way set upon by any of his instruments, or are in any distress or need, let us lift up the eyes of our faith higher than we can the eyes of our body, and in heaven behold this our head, who is invisible, and we cannot but receive from thence much comfort and encouragement” (William Gouge, Building a Godly Home, Vol. 1, 38).