[Songs in the Night - August 26]
In the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. Ephesians 2:7
ALL this abundance of grace and glory is the possible
inheritance of even the weakest saint who, trusting
not to his own ability to make his calling and election
sure, humbly looks to God for strength from day to
day to endure hardness as a good soldier.
If any man
attempts to do this in his own strength he must surely
fail, for the fiery trial that is to try every one will
prove too much for the mind of the flesh; but God who
worketh in the consecrated to will and to do his good
pleasure will so fortify and equip those who depend
upon his grace that with the Psalmist they can say, "It
is God that girdeth me with strength....By thee I
have run through a troop, and by my God have I
leaped over a wall"; and with Paul, "I can do all things
through Christ, who strengtheneth me." Z'97-146 R2154:3 (Hymn 261)