| Things to Live For |
Chapter 4 |
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If this were all of the Bible teaching on the subject, we might say that it is impossible for us to realize it. But there is more of the lesson. God will help us to be strong. “He giveth power to the faint.” We are to be more than conquerors, not in ourselves but in hi who love us. We are to be strong “in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.” It is possible for us, in all our weakness and faintness, to receive strength from the divine fullness.
How to get this strength from God is therefore a practical question for us all. It comes to us in many ways. We many find it in a book whose words, as we read them, warm our hearts, and freshly inspire us for struggle or service. We may find it in a friendship whose companionship and helpfulness fill us with new courage and hope. Far more than we understand does God strengthen and bless us through human love. He hides himself in the lives of those who touch us with their affection. He looks into our eyes through human eyes, and speaks into our ears through human lips. He gives power to us in our faintness, and hope in our discouragement, through the friends who come to us with their love and cheer. The highest and greatest of all the comings of God to men was a human life, when the Son of God tabernacle in the flesh. So ever since, God is coming to us in other human live; yet often we do not recognize the love and the help as from him, because we see no glory blazing in the faces of the messengers.
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