Feeble Efforts Not Enough
Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth
will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that
is higher than I. Ps. 61:1, 2.
When we are burdened, when we are pressed with temptation, when the
feelings and desires of the natural heart are contending for the victory, we
should offer up fervent, importunate prayer to our heavenly Father in the
name of Christ, and this will bring Jesus to our help, so that through His
all-powerful and efficacious name we may gain the victory and banish Satan
from our side. But we should not flatter ourselves that we are safe while we
make but feeble efforts in our own behalf.... "Strive {agonize} to enter in
at the strait gate" (Luke 13:24).
Our danger does not arise from the opposition of the world, but it is
found in the liability of our being in friendship with the world and
imitating the example of those who love not God or His truth. The loss of
earthly things for the truth's sake, the suffering of great inconvenience
for loyalty to principle, does not place us in danger of losing our faith
and hope; but we are in danger of suffering loss because of being deceived
and overcome by the temptations of Satan. Trials will work for our good if
we receive and bear them without murmuring, and will tend to separate us
from the love of the world and will lead us to trust more fully in God.
There is help for us only in God. We should not flatter ourselves that
we have any strength in wisdom of our own, for our strength is weakness, our
judgment foolishness. Christ conquered the foe in our behalf because He
pitied our weakness and knew that we would be overcome and would perish if
He did not come to our help. He clothed His divinity with humanity, and thus
was qualified to reach man with His human arm while with His divine arm He
grasped the throne of the Infinite. The merits of Christ elevate and ennoble
humanity, and through the name and grace of Christ it is possible for man to
overcome the degradation caused by the Fall, and through the exalted, divine
nature of Christ to be linked to the Infinite.
>From That I May Know Him - Page 269
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