Week 50 Day 5

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The Body of Christ

We beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; and to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake.

1 Thessalonians 5:12–13

How beauteous are their feet,

Who stand on Zion’s hill;

Who bring salvation on their tongues,

And words of peace reveal!

Abraham Lincoln believed God’s will was made known through the body of believers. “I must trust in that Supreme Being who has never forsaken this favored land, through the instrumentality of this great and intelligent people,” he said. “Under all circumstances, trusting to our Maker, and through his wisdom and beneficence, to the great body of our people, we will not despair, not despond.” Lincoln relied on God’s people to sustain him and the country. He believed the key to knowing God and understanding God’s will was through the body of believers.