After ye were illuminated ye endured a great fight of afflictions. Hebrews 10:32.
Our boldness for God before the world must always be the result of individual dealing with God in secret. Our victories over self, and sin, and the world, are always first fought where no eye sees but God’s. . . . If we have not these secret conflicts, well may we not have any open ones. The outward absence of conflict betrays theinward sleep of the soul.—F. Whitfield.