| Finding the Way |
Chapter 19 |
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We are exhorted continually in the Scriptures to be strong. Christ is strong, and we are to be like Him. We need to be strong in order to stand firm and true in the midst of the fray of life, and to do our duty faithfully and worthily. But how can we be strong? We need the strength of Heaven in our arm to make us equal to the stress of duty and responsibility that we must meet. How can we get this strength?
One way is by prayer. Prayer is linking our little life to God, when His grace will flow into our weakness, and make it God’s strength. If we would be strong, we must pray.
“Lord, what a change within us one short hour
Spent in Thy presence will avail to make?
We kneel, how weak! We rise, how full of power!
Why therefore should we do ourselves this wrong,
Or others, that we are not always strong,
That we are ever overborne with care,
That we should ever weak or heartless be,
Anxious or troubled–when within us is prayer,
And joy and strength and courage are with Thee?”
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