Strength for the Day
As thy days, so shall thy strength bo.” — Deut. xsxiii. 25,
Believer! Last thou not felt it so? Has thou not found plants distilling balm, growio beside sorrow’s path? — succours and supports vouchsafed, which were undreamt of till the dreaded cloud had burst, and the day of trial had come? Trouble not thyself regarding an unknown and veiled future; but cast all thy cares on God. “Our sandals,” says a saint now in glory, “are proof against the roughest path.” He whose name :s “the God of all grace” is better than His word. He will be found equal to all the emergencies of His people — enough for each moment and each hour as they come. He never takes us to the bitter Marah streams, but He reveals also the the third heavens to endure the smarting of his “thorn,” but he rises like a giant from his fall, exulting in the sustaining gro.ce of an “all-sufdcient God.”
The beautiful peculiarity in this promise is, that God proportions Ilis grace to the nature and the season of triaL He does not forestal or advance a supply of grace, but when the needed season and exigency comes, then the appropriate strength and support are imparted. He does not send the Bow lefore the cloud, but when the cloud appears, the Bow is seen in it! He gives sustaining grace for a trying day, and dj-ing grace for a dying day.
Reader! do not morbidly brood on the future. Live on the promise! When the morrow comes with its trials, Jesus will come loith the morrow, and with its trials too. Present grace is enough for present necessity. Trust God for the future. AYe honor Him, not by anticipating trial, but by confiding in His faithfulness, and crediting His assurance, that no temptation will be sent greater than we are a-j!e .o ocar. Even if you should see fresh clouds returning after the rain, be ready to say —” / luill fear no evil, for Thou art with mer
Insufficient you are of yourself for any trial — but “your sufficiency is of God.” The promise is not ‘^ Thy grace,” but “My grace is sufficient.” Oh, trust His “all-sufficiency in all thingsP Jehovah-Jireh, ^’the Lord luill provided See written over every trying hour of the future,” So sJiaU thy strength he P