Infinite Resources

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 7, 1871

Infinite Resources.

THERE is no limit to the supply of grace and power which a Christian may draw from God's infinite treasure-house. We have no right to excuse ourselves for lack of patience, or love, or any other grace. In God is all, more than all we need, and it is ours, purchased for us by Christ. He bought with his priceless blood, poured out unto death, an absolute right to these “infinite resources” for us. If we but have faith, the hand which is extended to receive from this treasury, we may have patience which will never fail; courage which will never falter; zeal which will never slacken; and love which shall burn on in still brighter flame, consuming all selfishness in its pure glow, until that glorious day shall come when “we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.”

This belief is founded upon God's word. Hear our Saviour's declaration to his disciples: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also.” This is a promise to them of power to work miracles such as he wrought—healing the sick, giving sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, and life to the dead. I fully believe that this word is to us the pledge of a limitless supply of grace to follow him in his perfect submission, his unwearying patience, his tender love, if we “believe on him.”

O fellow-Christians, do you realize that you need never suffer from a keen, overwhelming sense of your exceeding poverty and weakness? His riches are yours, his strength your own.

“Let him take hold of my strength,” says your Lord. Prove him, and see if you will not find yourself “strengthened with all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness.” Do not feel as if the thought was presumption. It is not presumption to take God at his word. The Lord told Paul, “My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness.” If that grace was not to be his, the glorious assurance was valueless. But it was his; and feeling its full power, he cried, “When I am weak, then am I strong.”

That is the secret. Come in utter weakness and hopelessness, in absolute self-distrustfulness, to him who is strong. Throw yourself upon his love, his infinite, never-failing love. He knows all; “for in that he himself hath suffered, being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.” To live this life of trust and faith, receiving constantly infinite grace and strength, Jesus must be your all. You must live to him, for him, in him. He has the key of the store-house. “My God shall supply all your need, according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” Believing this, claim the promise, “looking unto Jesus,” constantly, unwaveringly, you will say with Paul, “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me, for in everything ye are enriched by him.”—Golden Censer.