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Last Updated on : Saturday, October 11, 2014

 

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Chapter 9

"My Grace Is Sufficient For Thee"

 


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OUR present life in the Truth is a time of probation or proving. We have to work out our salvation with trembling and fear. God has provided the salvation for which we are looking, but He has imposed the condition that we must seek for it by a patient continuance in well-doing.

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We have then to plod on with the tasks God has given us even ?f they may sometimes be irksome and even though we may become weary. The tired man can urge himself forward. The weariness that sometimes comes upon the saint is one of his trials and, if he plods on in spite of it, it will in time pass. As one of Solomon's proverbs says, "if thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small." Our own strength may be very small, but we should know that it is one of our privileges to cry unto the Strong One for strength, and that our prayer will not go unanswered. There is also what may be described as the passive aspect of endurance. Sometimes trouble comes upon us which we cannot remove for ourselves and which God may not remove even in response to our prayers. All that we can then do is to bear our troubles with resignation and fortitude as part of God's discipline. We have one example of this sort of suffering in Paul's "thorn in the flesh." The account shows us that he did suffer severely, under his affliction, but his earnest three-fold request for its removal was not granted. He did, however, receive the consoling words, "My grace is sufficient for thee, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." Any saint under such affliction can dwell on the promise that God will never leave nor forsake those who put their trust in Him.¾ -- C.H.G.


 

Although our lot is changing, yet we are not left as a piece of driftwood, tossed by the waves and borne by the currents anywhere. God orders our lives for some beneficent end, of mercy and love. We must remember our calling and live in it, making the most of it. We must be content to fill a little place if it is our proper place, and do all the good we can; but let us be sure that it is our place, so that we do not hide our light under a basket, thinking we were never intended to shine. How many of God's children, endowed with His richest gifts and blessings are content to bury them in the dust of cowardice and unbelief, and waste all their precious opportunities.

 

 


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