A primary qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and
for doing God's work well and triumphantly, is a sense of our own weakness.
When God's warrior marches out to battle, strong in his own might, when he
boasts, "I know that I will overcome-my own ability and my self-confidence
will be enough for victory," defeat is staring him in the face.
God will not enable the man who marches in his own strength. He who
reckons on victory by such means has reckoned wrongly, for "not by might,
nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts."1
Those who go out to fight, boasting of their ability, will return with
their banners trailing in the dust and their armor stained with disgrace. Those
who serve God must serve Him in His own way and in His strength, or He will
never accept their service.
Whatever a man does, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The
mere fruits of the earth He casts away; He will only reap corn the seed of
which was sown from heaven, watered by grace, and ripened by the sun of divine
love.
God will empty out all that you have before He will put His own into you;
He will first clean out your granaries before He will fill them with the finest
of wheat.
The river of God is full of water; but not one drop of it flows from
earthly springs. God will have no strength used in His battles but the strength
that He Himself imparts.
Are you mourning over your own weakness? Take courage, for there must be a
consciousness of weakness before the Lord will give you victory. Your emptiness
is but the preparation for your being filled, and you are being humbled to
prepare you for being lifted up.
When I am weak then am I strong,
Grace is my shield and Christ my song.
Grace is my shield and Christ my song.
1Zechariah 4:6
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