For my strength is made perfect in weakness.
2 Corinthians 12:9
"A primary qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and
for doing God's work well and triumphantly,
is a sense of our own
weakness.
When God's warrior marches forth to battle, strong in his own
might, when he boasts, "I know that I shall conquer, my own right arm
and my conquering sword shall get unto me the victory," defeat is not
far distant. God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own
strength.
They who go forth to fight, boasting of their prowess, shall
return with their gay banners trailed in the dust, and their armor
stained with disgrace.
That
which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere
fruits of the earth He casteth away;
He will only reap that corn,
the
seed of which was sown from heaven,
watered by grace,
and ripened by the
sun of divine love.
God will empty out all that thou hast before He
will put His own into thee; He will first clean out thy granaries before
He will fill them with the finest of the wheat. The river of God is
full of water; but not one drop of it flows from earthly springs."
Charles Spurgeon
