STRENGTH FOR THE DAY As your
days, so shall your strength be. Deuteronomy 33, verse 25. Believer, have you not felt it
so? Have you not found plants distilling
balm, growing beside sorrow's path? Supports vouchsafed, which
were undreamed of, until the dreaded cloud had burst and the
day of trial had come. Trouble not yourself regarding
an unknown and veiled future, but cast all your cares on God. Our sandals, says a saint now
in glory, are a proof against the roughest path. He whose name
is 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 Mara streams, but he reveals also the hidden branch. Paul
returned from the third heaven to endure the smarting of the
thorn, but he exulted in the sustaining grace of an all-sufficient
God. The beautiful peculiarity in
this promise is, that God proportions His grace to the nature and season
of the trial. He does not give an advanced
supply of grace, but when the needed season and exigency comes,
then the appropriate strength and support are imparted. He
does not send the rainbow before the cloud, but when the cloud
appears, the rainbow is seen in it. He gives sustaining grace
for a trying day, and dying grace for a dying day. Listener, do
not morbidly brood on the future. Live on the promise. When tomorrow
comes with its trials, Jesus will come with tomorrow and with
its trials too. present grace is enough for present
necessity. Trust God for the future. We
honor Him, not by anticipating trial, but by confiding in His
faithfulness, and crediting His assurances that no temptation
will He send greater than we are able to bear. Even if you
should see fresh storm clouds returning after the rain, be
ready to say, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Insufficient you are of yourself
for any trial, but your sufficiency is of God. The promise is not
your grace, but my grace is sufficient. O trust his all-sufficiency in
all things! Jehovah Jireh, the Lord will
provide. See written over every trying
hour of the future, So shall your strength be.