Daily Affirmations - Day 3 - The Blessing of Weakness - Divine Strength That Never Fails
- Alisa B.
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Day 3: Divine strength that never fails
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with My righteous right hand (Isaiah 41:10).
When all around in this cold, dark land
Nothing encourages me to stand,
Jesus says, holding me by the hand,
“Come closer, My child, to Me.”
~ Barney E. Warren, pub. 1900
Every form of human strength must of necessity spend itself, for the world of which it forms a part decays, and… like...worn-out [clothing], the heavens and the earth shall be rolled up and put away. Some signs of age the creatures show already, but the time will come when their strength shall utterly fail.
The reason is that all strength apart from God is derived strength, and is consequently measurable; yea, apart from God it is not strength at all, and consequently must come to an end. The river runs on and the brook fails not, because they come from fountains that are not affected by drought; but cisterns are dried and reservoirs fail, because they have no springing well at the bottom of them…
Let every man know therefore that whatever his strength may be, of body, mind, or spirit, if it be his own it will fail him one day. Let him see to it therefore that he does not trust it; especially that he does not trust it with eternal hazards or rest upon it for his soul’s safety, for which it never can be equal.
It will be a horrible thing to be leaning and to find your staff fail you when you are on the edge of a measureless precipice. It will be terrible to be building and to find your foundation washed from under you, and all your handiwork carried away by the flood! Yet so it must be if we are depending upon anything that comes of ourselves.
Our own righteousness, our own thoughts, our own religiousness, our own prayers, resolves, attainments, achievements,— everything that is of ourselves must sooner or later prove themselves to be but human , and over all things human it is best to write, “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity”…
On the other hand, what a contrast there is as to divine strength! That never fails…it abides in joyous fulness, never in the least diminished.
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