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November 4
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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 forth to battle, strong in
his own might, when he boasts, "I know that I shall conquer, my
own right arm and my conquering sword shall get unto me the victory,"
defeat is not far distant. God will not go forth with that man who marches
in his own strength. He who reckoneth on victory thus has reckoned wrongly,
for "it is not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith
the Lord of hosts." They who go forth to fight, boasting of their
prowess, shall return with their gay banners trailed in the dust, and
their armour 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.
That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own.
The mere fruits of the earth he casteth away; he will only reap that
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 thou
hast before he will put his own into thee; he will first clean out thy
granaries before he will fill them with the finest of the 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
which 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 thee victory. Your emptiness is but the preparation for your
being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your
lifting up. November
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