The lowest act of the divine life we are not capable of performing except as we receive strength from God the Holy Spirit. Surely, my brethren, it is generally in these so-called LITTLE THINGS that we find out most of all our weakness. Peter can walk on water, but he cannot bear the charge of a little maid. Job can endure the loss of all things, but the upbraiding words of his false friends (though they were but words) make him speak far more bitterly than all of the other heartaches combined. Jonah said he did well to be angry, even unto death, ABOUT A GOURD. Have you not often heard that mighty men who have survived many battles have been slain at last by the most trivial accident? John Newton said, "The grace of God is as necessary to create a right attitude in believers over the breaking of a china plate as over the death of a loved one." These little leaks need the most careful stopping. IN LITTLE AS WELL AS IN GREAT THINGS, THE JUST MUST LIVE BY FAITH! Believer, you are sufficient for nothing at all! Without His grace, we can do nothing at all. Our strength is weakness--weakness even for little things, weakness for ounces as truly as for tons, weakness in drops of grief as well as in seas of sorrow. Learn well what our Lord told His disciples in John 15:5, "Without ME ye can do nothing."
--CHS