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My grace is sufficient for thee.

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If none of God's saints were poor and tried we should not know half so well the consolations of divine grace. When we find the wanderer who has not where to lay his head who yet can say Still will I trust in the or, when we see the pauper starvingon bread and water, who still glories in Jesus; when we see thebereaved widow overwhelmed in affliction, and yet having faithin Christ, oh! what honour it reflects on the gospel. God'sgrace is illustrated and magnified in the poverty and trials ofbelievers. Saints bear up under every discouragement, believingthat all things work together for their good, and that out ofapparent evils a real blessing shall ultimately spring--thattheir God will either work a deliverance for them speedily, ormost assuredly support them in the trouble, as long as He ispleased to keep them in it. This patience of the saints provesthe power of divine grace. There is a lighthouse out at sea: itis a calm night--I cannot tell whether the edifice is firm; thetempest must rage about it, and then I shall know whether itwill stand. So with the Spirit's work: if it were not on manyoccasions surrounded with tempestuous waters, we should not knowthat it was true and strong; if the winds did not blow upon it,we should not know how firm and secure it was. The master-worksof God are those men who stand in the midst of difficulties,stedfast, unmoveable,-- Calm mid the bewildering cry Confident of victory." He who would glorify his God must set his account upon meeting with many trials. No man can be illustrious before the Lord unless his conflicts be many. If then yours be a much-tried path rejoice in it because you will the better show forth the all-sufficient grace of God. As for His failing you never dream of it--hate the thought. The God who has been sufficient until now should be trusted to the end.


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