...Yes, that is how it
ever has been, ever must be with the people of God. Until we are carried quite out of our depth,
beyond all our own wisdom and resources, we are not more than beginners in the
school of faith. Only as everything
fails us and we fail ourselves, finding out how poor and weak we really are,
how ignorant and helpless, do we begin to draw upon abiding strength. "Blessed is the man whose strength is in
Thee," not partly in Thee and partly in himself. The devil often makes men strong, strong in
themselves to do evil…. The Lord on the contrary makes His servant weak, puts
him in circumstances that will show him his own nothingness, that he may lean
upon the strength that is unfailing. It
is a long lesson for most of us, but it cannot be passed over until deeply
learned. And God Himself thinks no
trouble too great, no care too costly to teach us this.
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