Our heritage!

This is the heritage of the servants of JHWH whose righteousness is from Him:

We shall be far from oppression, not because it does not exist, but because we shall not fear it. God has created the spoiler to destroy, yet no weapon formed against God's people will prosper. This is listed in His covenant of peace in Isaiah 54.


Here is the infinite mercy of our Redeemer: "For a mere moment I have forsaken you, but with great mercies I will gather you. With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you . . . . For this is like the waters of Noah to Me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth, so I have sworn that I would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you. For the mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, but My kindness shall not depart from you, nor shall My covenant of peace be removed."

"O you afflicted one, tossed with tempest and not comforted, Behold, I will lay your stones with colorful gems, and lay your foundations with sapphires. I will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of crystal, and all your walls of precious stones. All your children shall be taught by JHWH, and great shall be the peace of your children. In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you..."

Antidote to fear

"Dear Charles,

"...Salute your dear wife [Cromwell's daughter] from me. Bid her beware of a bondage spirit. Fear is the natural issue of such a spirit; the antidote is, Love. The voice of fear is: If I had done this; if I had avoided that, how well it had been with me!--I know this hath been her vain reasoning.

"Love argueth in this wise: What a Christ have I; what a Father in and through him! What a name hath my Father: Merciful, gracious, long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin. What a nature hath my Father: He is love--free in it, unchangeable, infinite. What a covenant between him and Christ, for all the seed, for every one, wherein he undertakes all, and the poor soul nothing. The new covenant is grace to or upon the soul, to which it is passive and receptive. I do away their sins; I'll write my law, etc.; I'll put it in their hearts; they shall never depart from me, etc.

"This commends the love of God: it's Christ dying for men without strength, for men whilst sinners, whilst enemies. And shall we seek for the root of our comforts within us; what God hath done, what he is to us in Christ, is the root of our comfort. In this is stability; in us is weakness. Acts of obedience are not perfect, and therefore yield not perfect peace. Faith, as an act, yields it not, but as it carries us into him, who is our perfect rest and peace; in whom we are accounted of, and received by, the Father, even as Christ himself. This is our high calling. Rest we here, and here only.

"Commend me to Harry Cromwell. I pray for him, that he may thrive, and improve in the knowledge and love of Christ. Commend me to all the officers. My prayers indeed are daily for them. Wish them to beware of bitterness of spirit, and of all things uncomely for the gospel. The Lord give you abundance of wisdom, and faith and patience. Take heed also of your natural inclination to compliance.

"Pray for me."

Oliver Cromwell, "To honour God":The spirituality of Oliver Cromwell, pp. 91-92