Not in Strength, but Faith
By Adolphe Monod
RECEIVE instruction, then, my dear friends. If you are less strong than Jesus, your God is not less strong than the God of Jesus. Let this rock be your rock, and His strength shall be your strength. For Jesus, for Adam, for yourselves, the question here is not a question of strength; it is one of faith. As your own strength could not deliver you without faith, so neither can your own weakness injure you with faith. Nay, if advantage be taken of it, this weakness may be of service to you; and a sense of it driving you, it may be, to seek God’s help, you will experience the truth of this word: “When I am weak, then am I strong.” Strange paradox! sublime truth! Instead of stopping to discuss it, believe it, live upon it.—Adolphe Monod.