Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
God promises strength fitted to each day's need, duty, trial, and conflict, including physical and mental power for heavy burdens. No trial will go beyond the strength He gives to bear it, so nothing can come without proportionate strength coming with it. He does not promise exemption from trials but what is far better, grace sufficient for each day and divine strength made complete in human weakness. That strength is for the present day and its duties, not given in advance for imagined future emergencies, and it is received by faith, trust, continual dependence, asking, and waiting in quiet confidence. God supplies it in the very act of effort, so moving forward despite feeling unable brings doubled strength, patient endurance in little annoyances prepares for greater trials, and as conflicts increase toward the end He gives increased power day by day.
Setting in Moses' Blessing
The promise belongs to God's blessing on Israel, in which He rides the heavens for help, dwells with His people with everlasting arms underneath, and keeps Israel in safety. In that same blessing He gives a land of corn and wine with dew from heaven, and makes Israel happy as a people saved by the Lord with Himself as shield of help and sword of excellency. Within that setting the pledge of strength fitted to each day is given.
It is help in daily living for God's pilgrim people for the remainder of their pilgrimage. It meets the new perplexities of the coming conflict, with assurance that no trial will go beyond the strength God gives to bear it. Remembering every past mercy — every tear wiped away, pain soothed, anxiety removed, fear dispelled, and want supplied — strengthens confidence that the Lord who helped hitherto will help to the end and that future strength will be sufficient. It therefore calls for taking up work just where it is found, believing nothing can come without proportionate strength coming with it.
Promise of Daily Strength
The promise is strength fitted to each day, proportioned to that day's need, duty, circumstance, trial, test, and conflict. It includes physical and mental power for heavy burdens, with strength and wisdom supplied for daily responsibilities and every trial. Wherever providence has placed a person, that person will be kept there and supplied with strength to match each day. Strength will be given for the days faced, sufficient for each day and its particular circumstances, with grace available today and firm still when tomorrow brings a new trial, bringing comfort, encouragement, and support in every condition. If persecution comes, grace for that emergency and strength to meet it will be given when it is required.
No trial will go beyond the strength given to bear it, so nothing can come without proportionate strength coming with it. Strength comes in exact proportion to trial for the remainder of the pilgrimage, and coming difficulty will not exceed the provision, so work can be continued with confidence in help. Each trial is weighed against the person's circumstances and strength, and temptation is not allowed to exceed capacity to resist, for Christ does not fail His children in their hour of trial. Failure comes not from withholding of strength, but from failing to stay watchful and prayerful and to take by faith the help provided.
What is promised is not exemption from trials but what is far better, grace sufficient for each day and divine strength made complete in human weakness. The grace is for the present day and its duties, comforts, and blessings, not given in advance for imagined future emergencies or troubles merely anticipated. Believers are therefore to live one day at a time, doing their best today in speech and action to honor God and to overcome as Christ overcame, without looking a week or a month ahead, because the strength needed for that day's duty and victory will be supplied for that day. Present peace is not to be disturbed by anticipated trials or a future crisis, and trouble is not to be borrowed about future crises. Trust is needed daily and hourly, with dependence day by day and asking for what is needed as circumstances require.
Wherever God in providence has placed a person, He will keep and sustain that person in that place with strength equal to the day and its duties. This keeping includes sustaining power to resist evil and faithfully care for souls entrusted, to control natural temper and impatience, and to meet obdurate hearts and perverse dispositions. The promise is absolutely certain because God's word is yea and amen, given to those who stay humble and earnestly seek to know and do His will, whom He will guide.
Receiving the Promised Strength
The strength is received by faith, trust, and continual dependence on God day by day and hour by hour, not by self-sufficiency. Taking God at His word means asking for what is needed, laying hold upon Him, calling upon Him in every time of need, and waiting in quietness and confidence rather than taking desperate steps. Christ speaks this to every tempted and discouraged child for whom He suffered and died, with His hand stretched out in pitying tenderness, for He knows both how strong each temptation is and how much power to resist is present. Strength and wisdom are supplied for daily responsibilities and every trial as circumstances require, not in advance for imagined future emergencies or merely anticipated troubles, and if persecution comes God will give grace for that emergency. Those who stay humble and earnestly seek to know and do His will will be guided, and the promise is absolutely certain because God's word is yea and amen.
God supplies the strength in the act of effort, so that moving forward in faith despite feeling unable brings doubled strength and improved vigor. Walking out by faith, venturing all on the promises, and taking up work just where it is found without complaining or gloom brings the proportionate strength with it, for nothing can come without strength to bear it coming with it. Weary, sick, and discouraged workers are therefore to go forward trusting instead of giving up to discouragement and infirmity, confident that the mighty Healer can restore health if it is for His glory, sustain travelers on the journey, and make the effort a blessing. A cheerful and hopeful mind living by faith day by day expects help equal to the need, because God never leaves nor forsakes one who trusts in Him.
Remembering every past mercy strengthens confidence that the Lord who helped hitherto will help to the end and that future strength will be sufficient. Every tear wiped away, pain soothed, anxiety removed, fear dispelled, want supplied, and mercy bestowed is to be diligently remembered and recited with daily praise and thanksgiving to keep God's love and goodness fresh. Keeping a written record of that help keeps holy confidence and blessed trust alive, even for humble workers without great privilege or learning who unselfishly wipe tears, expel fear, and show mercy while content to be little men handling great subjects. Such remembrance gives courage to face new trials, perplexities, afflictions, privations, bereavements, and petty vexations without dismay, committing the soul to God's keeping, trusting without doubt in a power outside and above self and making the Lord the dependence. Even when compassed with infirmities and feebleness, power suited to what each day requires is given to those who repeat their trust with thanks for great mercy and goodness.
The grace given must be used rather than squandered or left idle, with watchfulness and prayer, perfect obedience, and cheerful wholehearted service in the daily duties and work God gives, from which no one is excused. Humility and earnest seeking to know and do His will, waiting on the Lord instead of living in worry, doubt, unbelief, worldliness, and fretting, opens the way to see His salvation day by day. Little annoyances and trials borne patiently prepare the soul to endure greater trials and build strength, so that patient endurance turns even failures into instruction for success and apparent defeats into victories. Failure comes not from God withholding strength but from failing to take by faith the help He provides, for strength and grace proportionate to trials, tests, and conflicts are always given, with increased power as the end of earth's history approaches.
Dependence on Christ brings peace and joy that cannot be described, keeping believers mindful of their continual need for God's care. The one who takes God at His word receives strength equal to need day by day, so that even when duties become more taxing and temptations stronger and trials more severe, he does not falter, trials do not disturb him and slights do not vex him, because self is crucified. Present peace is not to be disturbed by anticipated trials or a future crisis, for grace is given day by day for present duties, comforts, and blessings. With hands placed in Christ's hands and feet on the Rock of Ages, the believer remains secure from storm in sore conflict.
Strength in Trial and Persecution
Christ speaks the promise to every tempted and discouraged child for whom He suffered and died, calling for trust with His hand stretched out in pitying tenderness, knowing both how strong each temptation is and how much power to resist is present, so there is no need for desperate steps but for waiting in quietness and confidence. God weighs each trial against the person's circumstances and strength and does not allow temptation to exceed the capacity to resist, and Christ does not fail His children in their hour of trial, so failure comes not from God withholding strength but from failing to stay watchful and prayerful and to take by faith the help He provides and to face the foe in His name. For disciples persecuted for righteousness the promise is evidence they follow their Master and cause for joy instead of grief, for divine grace is sufficient and divine strength is made complete in human weakness, and Jesus will be beside the sufferer going through the fiery furnace as He was beside the faithful three in Babylon, with love for the Redeemer making sharing humiliation and reproach sweet. The promise applies to those who stand for God's commandments during the coming conflict with its new perplexities, so that though imprisoned, forced to flee, brought before rulers and councils under false accusations, or martyred, they can remain firm in principle.
No trial for the remainder of the pilgrimage will go beyond the strength God gives to bear it, for nothing can come without proportionate strength coming with it, and remembering every past mercy, every tear wiped away, pain soothed, fear dispelled, anxiety removed, want supplied, strengthens confidence that the Lord who helped hitherto will help to the end and that future strength will be sufficient, calling for taking up work just where it is found. God gives grace to sustain His people through shame, imprisonment, and reproach, and Christ is a present and sufficient source of strength in both lesser and greater difficulties, needed in small trials as well as great ones. Little annoyances and trials borne patiently prepare the soul to endure greater trials, and daily conversion with faithful endurance in lesser trials builds strength to withstand greater tests rather than requiring an entirely new supply of strength when those tests come, so that even failures can teach success and apparent defeats become victories through grace.
As trials, tests, and conflicts increase and the end of earth's history approaches, God supplies increased strength, grace, and power proportionate to what must be faced. His people are therefore not to live in worry, doubt, unbelief, worldliness, and fretting, but to wait on Him in perfect obedience to His will and see His salvation day by day. Remembering how God has helped in the past gives courage to face new trials, perplexities, afflictions, privations, and bereavements without dismay and to commit the soul to God's keeping. Reliance on God enables Christians to meet trials and bereavements with fortitude and to keep self-control even when facing petty vexations or discourtesy.
Strength for Work and Witness
The promise gives strength suited to each day for the daily duties and work God assigns, so no one is excused from serving, and even humble, small work done cheerfully and wholeheartedly to honor Him is accepted and sustained. If a mother rightly fulfills her first responsibility of training her children and then undertakes further labor with the aim of honoring God, she will receive strength for that unselfish labor. Humble workers who faithfully read God's Word and impart its light to others receive strength equal to each day's need, and even without great privilege or learning, those who work unselfishly to wipe tears, expel fear, and show mercy will be blessed and helped as they help others. Keeping a written record of that help keeps His love and goodness fresh, while they remain content to be little men handling great subjects. Young disciples who take up the cross and follow Jesus, controlled by principle and clad in purity and righteousness, receive grace sufficient for each day in the path of duty as their Saviour guides them into the position best suited to their talents and where they can be most useful.
Wherever God in providence has placed a person, He keeps that person there and supplies strength proportioned to each day's need and duty. Applied to teachers, this upholds those set over precious souls for time and eternity to watch for souls as those who must give an account, giving daily grace and power to resist evil, control natural temper and impatience, and meet obdurate hearts and perverse dispositions, so impatience and unsanctified temper need not rule. God gives strength matching each day and its taxing labor, sustaining His workers through exhausting seasons of ministry and constant work for the saving of souls. Ministers carrying a heavy burden of work receive enough physical and mental power for their duties, for the Lord Himself is strength and salvation and supplies grace sufficient for the labors required when the necessity of saving souls requires constant work. This supply is received through faith and by laying hold upon Him.
The unfailing promise is fulfilled when claimed by faith in bodily weakness, supplying physical power to carry out the duty of speaking despite a congested body, hoarseness, sickness, infirmity, and inability to sit up. Moving forward in faith despite feeling unable, venturing out to speak brings doubled strength and improved vigor because strength is supplied in the act of effort, sustaining nearly two hours of preaching and leaving the speaker less weary afterward than before. Weary, sick, and discouraged workers who go forward trusting in Him instead of giving up to discouragement and infirmity receive needful strength to undergo fatigue and labor in the path of duty, walking out by faith and venturing all on the promises. Confidence rests in the mighty Healer to restore health if it is for His glory, to sustain travelers on their journey, to make the effort a blessing, to lift the heaviest burden, and to give strength according to need amid the perplexities met in labor, so workers can be of good courage. Comfort, encouragement, and support have been provided for every condition of life and each new circumstance of trial, with Christ standing by each person.
Jesus as helper provides this daily strength to enable Christian wives and mothers to live with peace and joy even when loved ones do not share their faith. It encourages a tempted person to choose the right way and live as a Christian in every circumstance, trusting God for strength to give husband and children a faithful testimony. Even far from fellow Sabbathkeepers and married to an unbelieving husband, a believer is enabled to be steadfast and immovable in Christian obligations, to refuse to leave the path for the ransomed, to live as a Christian at all times and under all circumstances, to practice truth in the home, and to give husband and children a testimony of love for God and for Jesus who gave His life. This strength comes by calling upon God in every time of need, with Christ, the heavenly angels, and the sympathy of the whole universe of heaven surrounding the believer, making it possible to choose the right way now. The same daily strength sustained care and prayer through a husband's severe illness.
The one who takes God at His word receives strength equal to need day by day, bringing peace and joy that cannot be described, so that trials do not disturb and slights do not vex because self is crucified. Even when duties become more taxing and temptations grow stronger and trials more severe, he does not falter, for strength matching each day's demand is supplied. God asks people to live only one day at a time, doing their best today in speech and action to honor Him and to overcome as Christ overcame, without looking a week or a month ahead, because strength needed for that day's duty and victory will be supplied for that day. Help received today is assurance of fresh help and victory tomorrow, because divine grace is sufficient for whatever temptation or trial comes.
God promises strength fitted to each day's need, duty, trial, and conflict, including physical and mental power for heavy burdens. No trial will go beyond the strength He gives to bear it, so nothing can come without proportionate strength coming with it. He does not promise exemption from trials but what is far better, grace sufficient for each day and divine strength made complete in human weakness. That strength is for the present day and its duties, not given in advance for imagined future emergencies, and it is received by faith, trust, continual dependence, asking, and waiting in quiet confidence. God supplies it in the very act of effort, so moving forward despite feeling unable brings doubled strength, patient endurance in little annoyances prepares for greater trials, and as conflicts increase toward the end He gives increased power day by day.
Setting in Moses' Blessing
The promise belongs to God's blessing on Israel, in which He rides the heavens for help, dwells with His people with everlasting arms underneath, and keeps Israel in safety. In that same blessing He gives a land of corn and wine with dew from heaven, and makes Israel happy as a people saved by the Lord with Himself as shield of help and sword of excellency. Within that setting the pledge of strength fitted to each day is given.
It is help in daily living for God's pilgrim people for the remainder of their pilgrimage. It meets the new perplexities of the coming conflict, with assurance that no trial will go beyond the strength God gives to bear it. Remembering every past mercy — every tear wiped away, pain soothed, anxiety removed, fear dispelled, and want supplied — strengthens confidence that the Lord who helped hitherto will help to the end and that future strength will be sufficient. It therefore calls for taking up work just where it is found, believing nothing can come without proportionate strength coming with it.
Promise of Daily Strength
The promise is strength fitted to each day, proportioned to that day's need, duty, circumstance, trial, test, and conflict. It includes physical and mental power for heavy burdens, with strength and wisdom supplied for daily responsibilities and every trial. Wherever providence has placed a person, that person will be kept there and supplied with strength to match each day. Strength will be given for the days faced, sufficient for each day and its particular circumstances, with grace available today and firm still when tomorrow brings a new trial, bringing comfort, encouragement, and support in every condition. If persecution comes, grace for that emergency and strength to meet it will be given when it is required.
No trial will go beyond the strength given to bear it, so nothing can come without proportionate strength coming with it. Strength comes in exact proportion to trial for the remainder of the pilgrimage, and coming difficulty will not exceed the provision, so work can be continued with confidence in help. Each trial is weighed against the person's circumstances and strength, and temptation is not allowed to exceed capacity to resist, for Christ does not fail His children in their hour of trial. Failure comes not from withholding of strength, but from failing to stay watchful and prayerful and to take by faith the help provided.
What is promised is not exemption from trials but what is far better, grace sufficient for each day and divine strength made complete in human weakness. The grace is for the present day and its duties, comforts, and blessings, not given in advance for imagined future emergencies or troubles merely anticipated. Believers are therefore to live one day at a time, doing their best today in speech and action to honor God and to overcome as Christ overcame, without looking a week or a month ahead, because the strength needed for that day's duty and victory will be supplied for that day. Present peace is not to be disturbed by anticipated trials or a future crisis, and trouble is not to be borrowed about future crises. Trust is needed daily and hourly, with dependence day by day and asking for what is needed as circumstances require.
Wherever God in providence has placed a person, He will keep and sustain that person in that place with strength equal to the day and its duties. This keeping includes sustaining power to resist evil and faithfully care for souls entrusted, to control natural temper and impatience, and to meet obdurate hearts and perverse dispositions. The promise is absolutely certain because God's word is yea and amen, given to those who stay humble and earnestly seek to know and do His will, whom He will guide.
Receiving the Promised Strength
The strength is received by faith, trust, and continual dependence on God day by day and hour by hour, not by self-sufficiency. Taking God at His word means asking for what is needed, laying hold upon Him, calling upon Him in every time of need, and waiting in quietness and confidence rather than taking desperate steps. Christ speaks this to every tempted and discouraged child for whom He suffered and died, with His hand stretched out in pitying tenderness, for He knows both how strong each temptation is and how much power to resist is present. Strength and wisdom are supplied for daily responsibilities and every trial as circumstances require, not in advance for imagined future emergencies or merely anticipated troubles, and if persecution comes God will give grace for that emergency. Those who stay humble and earnestly seek to know and do His will will be guided, and the promise is absolutely certain because God's word is yea and amen.
God supplies the strength in the act of effort, so that moving forward in faith despite feeling unable brings doubled strength and improved vigor. Walking out by faith, venturing all on the promises, and taking up work just where it is found without complaining or gloom brings the proportionate strength with it, for nothing can come without strength to bear it coming with it. Weary, sick, and discouraged workers are therefore to go forward trusting instead of giving up to discouragement and infirmity, confident that the mighty Healer can restore health if it is for His glory, sustain travelers on the journey, and make the effort a blessing. A cheerful and hopeful mind living by faith day by day expects help equal to the need, because God never leaves nor forsakes one who trusts in Him.
Remembering every past mercy strengthens confidence that the Lord who helped hitherto will help to the end and that future strength will be sufficient. Every tear wiped away, pain soothed, anxiety removed, fear dispelled, want supplied, and mercy bestowed is to be diligently remembered and recited with daily praise and thanksgiving to keep God's love and goodness fresh. Keeping a written record of that help keeps holy confidence and blessed trust alive, even for humble workers without great privilege or learning who unselfishly wipe tears, expel fear, and show mercy while content to be little men handling great subjects. Such remembrance gives courage to face new trials, perplexities, afflictions, privations, bereavements, and petty vexations without dismay, committing the soul to God's keeping, trusting without doubt in a power outside and above self and making the Lord the dependence. Even when compassed with infirmities and feebleness, power suited to what each day requires is given to those who repeat their trust with thanks for great mercy and goodness.
The grace given must be used rather than squandered or left idle, with watchfulness and prayer, perfect obedience, and cheerful wholehearted service in the daily duties and work God gives, from which no one is excused. Humility and earnest seeking to know and do His will, waiting on the Lord instead of living in worry, doubt, unbelief, worldliness, and fretting, opens the way to see His salvation day by day. Little annoyances and trials borne patiently prepare the soul to endure greater trials and build strength, so that patient endurance turns even failures into instruction for success and apparent defeats into victories. Failure comes not from God withholding strength but from failing to take by faith the help He provides, for strength and grace proportionate to trials, tests, and conflicts are always given, with increased power as the end of earth's history approaches.
Dependence on Christ brings peace and joy that cannot be described, keeping believers mindful of their continual need for God's care. The one who takes God at His word receives strength equal to need day by day, so that even when duties become more taxing and temptations stronger and trials more severe, he does not falter, trials do not disturb him and slights do not vex him, because self is crucified. Present peace is not to be disturbed by anticipated trials or a future crisis, for grace is given day by day for present duties, comforts, and blessings. With hands placed in Christ's hands and feet on the Rock of Ages, the believer remains secure from storm in sore conflict.
Strength in Trial and Persecution
Christ speaks the promise to every tempted and discouraged child for whom He suffered and died, calling for trust with His hand stretched out in pitying tenderness, knowing both how strong each temptation is and how much power to resist is present, so there is no need for desperate steps but for waiting in quietness and confidence. God weighs each trial against the person's circumstances and strength and does not allow temptation to exceed the capacity to resist, and Christ does not fail His children in their hour of trial, so failure comes not from God withholding strength but from failing to stay watchful and prayerful and to take by faith the help He provides and to face the foe in His name. For disciples persecuted for righteousness the promise is evidence they follow their Master and cause for joy instead of grief, for divine grace is sufficient and divine strength is made complete in human weakness, and Jesus will be beside the sufferer going through the fiery furnace as He was beside the faithful three in Babylon, with love for the Redeemer making sharing humiliation and reproach sweet. The promise applies to those who stand for God's commandments during the coming conflict with its new perplexities, so that though imprisoned, forced to flee, brought before rulers and councils under false accusations, or martyred, they can remain firm in principle.
No trial for the remainder of the pilgrimage will go beyond the strength God gives to bear it, for nothing can come without proportionate strength coming with it, and remembering every past mercy, every tear wiped away, pain soothed, fear dispelled, anxiety removed, want supplied, strengthens confidence that the Lord who helped hitherto will help to the end and that future strength will be sufficient, calling for taking up work just where it is found. God gives grace to sustain His people through shame, imprisonment, and reproach, and Christ is a present and sufficient source of strength in both lesser and greater difficulties, needed in small trials as well as great ones. Little annoyances and trials borne patiently prepare the soul to endure greater trials, and daily conversion with faithful endurance in lesser trials builds strength to withstand greater tests rather than requiring an entirely new supply of strength when those tests come, so that even failures can teach success and apparent defeats become victories through grace.
As trials, tests, and conflicts increase and the end of earth's history approaches, God supplies increased strength, grace, and power proportionate to what must be faced. His people are therefore not to live in worry, doubt, unbelief, worldliness, and fretting, but to wait on Him in perfect obedience to His will and see His salvation day by day. Remembering how God has helped in the past gives courage to face new trials, perplexities, afflictions, privations, and bereavements without dismay and to commit the soul to God's keeping. Reliance on God enables Christians to meet trials and bereavements with fortitude and to keep self-control even when facing petty vexations or discourtesy.
Strength for Work and Witness
The promise gives strength suited to each day for the daily duties and work God assigns, so no one is excused from serving, and even humble, small work done cheerfully and wholeheartedly to honor Him is accepted and sustained. If a mother rightly fulfills her first responsibility of training her children and then undertakes further labor with the aim of honoring God, she will receive strength for that unselfish labor. Humble workers who faithfully read God's Word and impart its light to others receive strength equal to each day's need, and even without great privilege or learning, those who work unselfishly to wipe tears, expel fear, and show mercy will be blessed and helped as they help others. Keeping a written record of that help keeps His love and goodness fresh, while they remain content to be little men handling great subjects. Young disciples who take up the cross and follow Jesus, controlled by principle and clad in purity and righteousness, receive grace sufficient for each day in the path of duty as their Saviour guides them into the position best suited to their talents and where they can be most useful.
Wherever God in providence has placed a person, He keeps that person there and supplies strength proportioned to each day's need and duty. Applied to teachers, this upholds those set over precious souls for time and eternity to watch for souls as those who must give an account, giving daily grace and power to resist evil, control natural temper and impatience, and meet obdurate hearts and perverse dispositions, so impatience and unsanctified temper need not rule. God gives strength matching each day and its taxing labor, sustaining His workers through exhausting seasons of ministry and constant work for the saving of souls. Ministers carrying a heavy burden of work receive enough physical and mental power for their duties, for the Lord Himself is strength and salvation and supplies grace sufficient for the labors required when the necessity of saving souls requires constant work. This supply is received through faith and by laying hold upon Him.
The unfailing promise is fulfilled when claimed by faith in bodily weakness, supplying physical power to carry out the duty of speaking despite a congested body, hoarseness, sickness, infirmity, and inability to sit up. Moving forward in faith despite feeling unable, venturing out to speak brings doubled strength and improved vigor because strength is supplied in the act of effort, sustaining nearly two hours of preaching and leaving the speaker less weary afterward than before. Weary, sick, and discouraged workers who go forward trusting in Him instead of giving up to discouragement and infirmity receive needful strength to undergo fatigue and labor in the path of duty, walking out by faith and venturing all on the promises. Confidence rests in the mighty Healer to restore health if it is for His glory, to sustain travelers on their journey, to make the effort a blessing, to lift the heaviest burden, and to give strength according to need amid the perplexities met in labor, so workers can be of good courage. Comfort, encouragement, and support have been provided for every condition of life and each new circumstance of trial, with Christ standing by each person.
Jesus as helper provides this daily strength to enable Christian wives and mothers to live with peace and joy even when loved ones do not share their faith. It encourages a tempted person to choose the right way and live as a Christian in every circumstance, trusting God for strength to give husband and children a faithful testimony. Even far from fellow Sabbathkeepers and married to an unbelieving husband, a believer is enabled to be steadfast and immovable in Christian obligations, to refuse to leave the path for the ransomed, to live as a Christian at all times and under all circumstances, to practice truth in the home, and to give husband and children a testimony of love for God and for Jesus who gave His life. This strength comes by calling upon God in every time of need, with Christ, the heavenly angels, and the sympathy of the whole universe of heaven surrounding the believer, making it possible to choose the right way now. The same daily strength sustained care and prayer through a husband's severe illness.
The one who takes God at His word receives strength equal to need day by day, bringing peace and joy that cannot be described, so that trials do not disturb and slights do not vex because self is crucified. Even when duties become more taxing and temptations grow stronger and trials more severe, he does not falter, for strength matching each day's demand is supplied. God asks people to live only one day at a time, doing their best today in speech and action to honor Him and to overcome as Christ overcame, without looking a week or a month ahead, because strength needed for that day's duty and victory will be supplied for that day. Help received today is assurance of fresh help and victory tomorrow, because divine grace is sufficient for whatever temptation or trial comes.