Strong in the Lord

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 16, 1863

Strong in the Lord.

PAUL had a sense of "weakness," "fear," and even "trembling," in his public exercises, especially when he had to confront the gainsaying heathen multitudes. But the "grace" of God was "sufficient for him." It enabled him to sacrifice himself on these occasions for his Divine Master. It revealed his own power in contrast with his weakness, and his preaching, though without the enticing words of man's wisdom, "was in demonstration of the Spirit and with power." There is something both affecting and sublime in this spectacle of an infirm, trembling man throwing himself with self-distrust and self-sacrifice, but with triumphant power, against the strongholds of ancient philosophy and heathenism—glorying only in the delegated strength of his God;—in that strength challenging all the mightiness of earth and hell, and by it revolutionizing the moral world—"turning the world upside down." Learn well the lesson of his example, O, trembling man of God! remember that in thine own weakness is thy divine strength : that the humble, earnest soul is irresistibly and always triumphant; that God must fall before he can fall who stands forth only in the name and strength of his God.—Methodist.