All glory to God, who is able, through
His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might
ask or think. Ephesians 3:20
Any power
that can survive what we sometimes have to go through in the realm of our own
souls is a very great power indeed; and, believe me, this power that works in
the Church is going to survive all the accumulated sensations of all the
members of the Body of Christ.
Now,
bring all your misery together, bring all your despair together, all your
sensations, all the helplessness of the outlook, and, if you are a child of
God, there is a power that works within which is more than sufficient to meet
and counter and triumph over all that. That is the means by which God reaches
His end in us, and if His end in us is conformity to the image of His Son, then
the power that worketh in us is more than enough to meet and overcome all that
which is contrary to His Son in us. Do you believe that? Not always! If we
really believed that in a thoroughgoing way we should never be found occupied
with ourselves, we should never be depressed because of our imperfection, there
would be no room for any question as to our standing. Oh, if we did but believe
this, what triumphant people we should be; for is it not true that the greater
proportion of our trouble, of our despair, of our unhappiness, is due to the
consciousness of our own imperfection – all that we are that we would not be
and should not be, and all that we are not that we feel we ought to be. His
eternal purpose and His exceeding great power are linked together. Do not
forget that. We are the object of both, and His exceeding great power is at
work within us to effect the purpose.
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