Daily Affirmations - Day 5 - The Blessing of Weakness - The Glory of God's Strength

Day 5: The glory of God's strength

In the Lord alone are deliverance and strength

“For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s; on them He has set the world. He will guard the feet of His faithful servants... It is not by strength that one prevails; those who oppose the Lord will be broken…” (1 Samuel 2:8-10).

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Help me, Lord, when toil and trouble meeting,

[Ever, Always] to take, as from a father’s hand,

One by one, the days, the moments fleeting,

Till I reach the promised land

~ Karolina W. Sandell-Berg ~ Day by Day

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With God there are no years to make Him decline with age, no labours to tax His powers. With God our lives are but as the swing of the pendulum. A thousand years in His sight are passed away as a watch in the night.

Millions of ages are nothing to Him. He was God when as yet this sun, and moon, and all these stars slept in His thought like unborn forests in an acorn cup; and He will be God when all this brief creation shall melt back to nothing as a moment’s foam dissolves into the wave that bore it and is lost for [ever].

God changes not in any degree whatever: the fountain of His almightiness still overflows... All the worlds that we can see revolving in yonder sky are perhaps as a single chamber in the mansion-house of creation: they occupy an insignificant corner behind the door, compared to other and vaster worlds that He has made.

In your dire necessity you may draw largely upon Him, but you cannot exhaust Him. You may bring your boundless wants and have them all supplied, but you shall no more diminish His all-sufficiency than when an infant dips his cup into the sea and leaves the sea brimming over upon ten thousand leagues of shore.

Oh, the glory of the strength of God! I cannot speak of it. I will not contrast it with the strength of man. It would be to contrast everything with nothing, and infinity with non-existence.

~ C.H. Spurgeon, Renewing Strength

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O God, our help in ages past,

Our hope for years to come,

Our shelter from the stormy blast,

And our eternal home.

Under the shadow of Thy throne

Thy saints have dwelt secure;

Sufficient is Thine arm alone,

And our defense is sure.

Before the hills in order stood,

Or earth received her frame,

From everlasting Thou art God,

To endless years the same.

Thy Word commands our flesh to dust,

“Return, ye sons of men”:

All nations rose from earth at first,

And turn to earth again.

A thousand ages in Thy sight

Are like an evening gone;

Short as the watch that ends the night

Before the rising sun.

The busy tribes of flesh and blood,

With all their lives and cares,

Are carried downwards by the flood,

And lost in foll’wing years.

Time, like an ever-rolling stream,

Bears all its sons away;

They fly, forgotten, as a dream

Dies at the op’ning day.

O God, our help in ages past,

Our hope for years to come,

Be Thou our guard while troubles last,

And our eternal home.

~ Isaac Watts, pub. 1719

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