Strength and Continuance
Phil. 3:12. It is Christ’s hold upon us that enables us, by faith, to lay hold on and to keep hold of Him.
They who seem the most tried are not always those that have the sharpest warfare.
Sometimes things appear to us so difficult that we are daunted; at other times so easy that we think we are equal to them; and thus in either case we fail.
He that is running a race looks not at witnesses admiring, but only at the mark.
We need to “discern the Lord’s body” [i.e. Christ as having been crucified] (1 Cor. 11:29)
The fulfilling of God’s promises depends not upon the creature’s strength, and cannot be prevented by the creature’s weakness.
We need a close walk with God, a having respect to all His commandments, if we would obtain of Him whatsoever we ask.
True persevering diligence in spiritual things always begins in self-abasement.
It is one mark of growth in spirituality to be more afflicted by the pleasing—than by the distressing—temptations of Satan.