NONE TOO WEAK TO YIELD.
By L. A. S.
If you are very weak in the service of God, the trouble is not with your weakness, but with your strength. You are not so weak that you cannot yield to the Lord; the trouble is that you have strength enough to resist Him — to bar Him out of your heart, so that He cannot come in. “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: and yet . . . Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” The lilies have no strength to toil or to spin; but one thing they do — they yield themselves perfectly to God, so that He has full freedom to work in them; they have no strength at all to resist. The result is that the lilies glorify God; they do just that which they were created to do. You will do just what you were created to do if you will as fully yield to the Lord as do the lilies of the field. All that you need is to be weak enough to “submit yourself to the Lord;” then you can even “resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” “My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Do not then plead your weakness as an excuse for the neglect of Christian duty.