We are weak, but our strength is in God. We are guilty and condemned, but our righteousness is in him. We sit in darkness, but Jehovah is our light. We are dead, but our life is hid with Christ in God. What a release and joy and new hope it is to a man when he [224] begins to realize that! Then he learns to look unto God with steadfast gaze. He trembles in his flesh, but, looking away from himself to the Fountain of all help and grace, he stands and endures "as seeing him who is invisible." His confidence in himself is gone, but confidence in God takes the place of it more abundantly. He has no hope in himself that he will live better the coming days than he did the days past; but he knows now that his power to be pure, true, upright, humble, lies not in himself, but in God; and to God he looks, and is not disappointed. God is my great treasure house, and I learn to cast my spiritual cares on him as well as my material. So comest rest and peace and victory and new hope.

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