Sufficient Grace

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 23, 1908

A DIVINE provision has been made for every need. There is no trial so heavy that divine strength is insufficient to enable us to bear it. There is no temptation so severe that divine grace is unable to make us conquerors over it. And not only is this true for the experiences of believers in general, but it is equally true of every individual and of all situations. “God adapts his grace to the peculiarities of each one’s necessity. For rough, flinty paths he provides shoes of iron. He never sends any one to climb sharp, rugged mountainsides wearing silken slippers. He gives always grace sufficient. As the burdens grow heavier, the strength increases. As the difficulties thicken, the angel draws closer. As the trials become sorer, the trusting heart grows calmer. Jesus always sees his disciples when they are toiling in the waves, and at the right moment comes to deliver them. Thus it becomes possible to live a true and victorious life in any circumstances. Christ can as easily enable Joseph to remain pure and true in heathen Egypt, as Benjamin in the shelter of his father’s love. The sharper the temptations, the more of divine grace is granted. There is, therefore, no environment of trial or difficulty or hardship, in which we can not live beautiful lives of Christian fidelity and approved conduct. Instead, then, of yielding to discouragement when trials multiply, and it becomes hard to live right, or of being satisfied with a broken peace and a very faulty life, it should be the settled purpose of each one to live, through the grace of God, a patient, gentle, and unspotted life in the place and amid the circumstances allotted.” “My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. . . . For when I am weak, then am I strong.”