Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
Now, would the Lord have accepted the offering of yourself to him if he meant to destroy you? Would he have let you say, “﻿I am thy servant and the son of thy handmaid: thou hast loosed my bond?﻿” Would he have permitted you to declare as you can boldly assert tonight, “﻿I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus,﻿” delighting to remember the time of your baptism into him, whereby your body washed with his pure body, was declared to be the Lord’s forever? Would he enable you to feel a joy in the very mark of your consecration, as well as in the consecration itself, if he meant to slay you? Oh, surely not! He does not let a man give himself up to him and then cast him away. That cannot be.
