If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
Fainting when trouble comes proves that inner strength is small, and to faint means to be unable to bear even lighter trials. Adversity is sent in love to test and strengthen, and even a little prosperity or a little adversity exposes falseness, pride, and selfishness in the heart. To faint is to yield to discouragement and sin and to let the opposition and disapproval of wicked people take away courage and hope.
Such fainting reveals empty confidence rather than genuine grace, showing cherished sin and an unwillingness to examine the heart or to let God examine it. Genuine grace can endure trial, and an upright person wants to know his true standing before God and does not avoid being tested. One who faints now will be unable to stand when Christ comes to purify like a refiner's fire, to cleanse His threshing floor, to test every person's work as by fire, and to reveal the secrets of every heart, and without deep earnest effort, settled principle, true sincerity, and a firm hold on Jesus, such a person will fail to reach heaven.
Fainting when trouble comes proves that inner strength is small, and to faint means to be unable to bear even lighter trials. Adversity is sent in love to test and strengthen, and even a little prosperity or a little adversity exposes falseness, pride, and selfishness in the heart. To faint is to yield to discouragement and sin and to let the opposition and disapproval of wicked people take away courage and hope.
Such fainting reveals empty confidence rather than genuine grace, showing cherished sin and an unwillingness to examine the heart or to let God examine it. Genuine grace can endure trial, and an upright person wants to know his true standing before God and does not avoid being tested. One who faints now will be unable to stand when Christ comes to purify like a refiner's fire, to cleanse His threshing floor, to test every person's work as by fire, and to reveal the secrets of every heart, and without deep earnest effort, settled principle, true sincerity, and a firm hold on Jesus, such a person will fail to reach heaven.