Steve Blankenship wrote, “One New Year’s Day, in the Tournament of Roses parade, a beautiful float suddenly sputtered and quit. It was out of gas. The whole parade was held up until someone could get a can of gas. The amusing thing was this float represented the Standard Oil Company. With its vast oil resources, its truck was out of gas. Often, Christians neglect their spiritual maintenance, and find themselves (out of gas).” Worry will take all of your strength! Fear will make you feeble! Corrie Ten Boom wrote, “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”

There is a great blessing in knowing and experiencing God’s strength.

“But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength…” Isaiah 40:31

“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.” Ephesians 6:10

“The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped:…” Psalm 28:7

”In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.” Psalm 138:3

“Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long suffering with joyfulness;…” Colossians 1:11

“…out of weakness were made strong…” Hebrews 11:34

Knowing your own strength is a fine thing. Recognizing your own weakness is even better. The weaker we feel, the harder we lean upon God. And the harder we lean upon God, the stronger we grow. Chambers writes, “Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of their troubles and trials and says – I will watch my Father mend this.”

“Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting – so patient with my foolishness, my weakness, my fear. Our fellowship is with God, and fellowship is friendship, and friendship means that partnership which, on His part, is the accommodating of His strength to my weakness.”
~ G. Campbell Morgan, English & American Preacher

JESUS PAID IT ALL

I hear the Savior say, “Thy strength indeed is small.
Child of weakness, watch and pray, Find in Me thine all in all.”

Jesus paid it all, all to Him I owe; Sin had left a crimson stain,
He washed it white as snow.

Lord, now indeed I find Thy pow’r, and Thine alone,
Can change the leper’s spots And melt the heart of stone.

For nothing good have I Whereby Thy grace to claim;
I’ll wash my garments white In the blood of Calv’ry’s Lamb.

And when, before the throne, I stand in Him complete,
“Jesus died my soul to save,” My lips shall still repeat.