HE GIVETH MORE GRACE

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 12, 1876

HE GIVETH MORE GRACE.

If we have ever so little sincere desire to serve God and to be his, is it not absolutely certain, from the whole tenor of his words and deeds, that he will meet us more than half way, and bring us on in the right path with more than a mother's tenderness? He requires from us a very arduous standard of sentiment and duty. Granted. But does he demand anything which he is not ready to supply? Is he a Pharaoh, who, while he requires us to build a pyramid, bids us get straw where we can find it? Truly, no. For every responsibility which we have to meet, he offers to qualify us. For every height which we have to climb, he furnishes an inward strength. So that whatever be our faithless forecastings before we fairly come up with our burdens, it is extremely questionable whether, while we are bearing them, the heavier seems more oppressive than the lighter. For the feeling of a burden's oppressiveness must of course, be proportioned to our strength. And if with a double burden the Lord supplies a double strength, it is exactly the same to our experience as if with half a burden he had left us half the strength. Isaac leads a quiet life; and it is not recorded that any great revelation was made to him. Jacob is tossed with troubles; and in the midst of them he dreams of the great, bright ladder which spanned the distance between heaven and earth. The same is the law of the Christian life; an easy pilgrimage, and no extraordinary support; a tempest-tossed career, and a strong consolation. We need not faint, then, at any prospect before us. Progress in grace may be arduous, difficult, impossible to flesh and blood—out of the question, it may be said, while living in the old world—but to all alleged difficulties there is one simple answer, “He giveth more grace.”—Church Union.