March 12
All glory to God, who is able,
through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than
we might ask or think (Ephesians 3:20 NLT).
Any power that can survive what
we sometimes have to go through in the realm of our own souls is a very great
power indeed; and, believe me, this power that works in the Church is going to
survive all the accumulated sensations of all the members of the Body of
Christ.
Now, bring all your misery
together, bring all your despair together, all your sensations, all the
helplessness of the outlook, and, if you are a child of God, there is a power
that works within which is more than sufficient to meet and counter and triumph
over all that. That is the means by which God reaches His end in us, and if His
end in us is conformity to the image of His Son, then the power that worketh in
us is more than enough to meet and overcome all that which is contrary to His
Son in us. Do you believe that? Not always! If we really believed that in a
thoroughgoing way we should never be found occupied with ourselves, we should
never be depressed because of our imperfection, there would be no room for any
question as to our standing. Oh, if we did but believe this, what triumphant
people we should be; for is it not true that the greater proportion of our
trouble, of our despair, of our unhappiness, is due to the consciousness of our
own imperfection – all that we are that we would not be and should not be, and
all that we are not that we feel we ought to be. His eternal purpose and His
exceeding great power are linked together. Do not forget that. We are the
object of both, and His exceeding great power is at work within us to effect
the purpose.
By T.
Austin-Sparks from: The Power That Worketh In
Us
This photograph is by Kristofer Rowe.
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