A WELL KNOWN preacher was asked to go and visit a boy, who, he was told, had suffered excruciating pain for three years, and had not known a day's rest. It was a poor home where he lived, and he looked with great pity at the boy as he entered the room where he lay, and going up to his side, said some words of sympathy and comfort.
The little fellow looked up with his large, blue eyes straight into his face and said,
"I am strong in Him." It greatly surprised the visitor.
So this was the secret of his patience. He had borne all the pain without murmuring, because he had been strengthened by the Lord Jesus moment by moment.
Christians who may read this—you may be well and strong, and full of energy, and of course you would not like to be ill and suffering; yet though your body may be strong, you are really very, very weak when temptation comes, as it constantly
does, day by day. Do not think that you have strength of your own to meet it, for you have not; but if Christ is your Saviour, then He is also your Captain, and He is ever near to help you.
Of course you like to be independent, and try to overcome the foe yourself; but you must, sooner or later, find yourself defeated, till you own that you are powerless, and can say, "I am strong in Him," meaning, of course, the Lord Jesus.
This will not make you less manly, but, much more so, as, instead of suffering defeat, you will be an overcomer.
Messages of God’s Love 11/13/1932