The Strength of Conscious Weakness.
SELF-SATISFACTION has a great deal more to do with people’s so-called religious doubts than they like to admit. One who is ready to look at himself as he really is finds little room left for self-satisfaction, and for the spiritual and intellectual fogs that go with it. An earnest Christian worker recently thanked God “for a sufficient consciousness of sinful nature and nothingness when alone, to keep me from any doubt as to the need of a Saviour, and that success in doing God’s will and work is wholly a question of the Holy Spirit’s choosing and using as an instrument.” There is safety, efficiency, and clear vision of truth, in that prayer of thanksgiving. The only man whom God can not help is the man who will not admit his need of God’s help.—S. S. Times.