How God Strengthens us

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

How God Strengthens us.

SIR WALTER SCOTT relates in his autobiography, that when he was a child, one of his legs was paralyzed; and that when medical skill failed, a kind uncle induced him to exert the muscles of the powerless limb by drawing a gold watch before him on the floor, tempting him to creep after it, and thus keeping up, and gradually increasing vital action and muscular force.

So God deals with us in our spiritual childhood and the weakness of our faith. He holds the blessing before us, so as to tempt us to creep after it. How weak our efforts! how slow our movements! But spiritual vitality is elicited, developed, strengthened, by these efforts and movements, slow and weak as they are.—Sel.