Megan the Encourager

My friend Maggie (Megan) emailed this to me tonight. It's real good. 

"We greatly need a bold voice and a strong hand to preach and publish the old Gospel for which martyrs bled and confessors died. The Savior is, by His Spirit, still on earth; let this truth encourage us. He is always in the midst of the fight; therefore, the results of the battle are not in doubt. And as the conflict rages, what a sweet satisfaction it is to know that the Lord Jesus, in His office as our great Intercessor, is powerfully interceding for His people! O anxious gazer, do not look so much at the battle below, for there you will be enshrouded in smoke and amazed with garments rolled in blood. Instead, lift your eyes yonder where the Savior lives and pleads, for while He intercedes, the cause of God is safe. Let us fight as if it all depended on us, but let us look up and know it all depends on Him. Now, by the lilies of Christian purity, by the roses if the Savior's atonement, and "by the roes, and by the hinds of the field" (Song 2:7), we charge you who are lovers of Jesus to do valiantly in the holy war for truth and righteousness, for the kingdom and crown jewels of your Master. Onward! "For the battle is not yours, but God's" (2 Chron. 20:15). "Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world" (Matt 28:20)