'My grace is sufficient for you.' (2 Corinthians 12:9)
"The other day I was riding home after a hard day's
work. I was very tired and deeply depressed, when
quickly, and as suddenly as a lightning bolt, the verse
came to me: "My grace is sufficient for you." When
I arrived home I looked it up in the Word, and it
finally came to me this way: MY grace is sufficient
for you." My response was to say, "Yes, Lord, I
should think it is.!" Then I bust out laughing.
Until that time, I had never understood what the
holy laughter of Abraham was. This verse seemed
to make unbelief totally absurd. I pictured a thirsty
little fish who was concerned about drinking the
river dry, with Father River saying, "Drink away,
little fish; my stream is sufficient for you." I also
envisioned a mouse afraid of starving after seven
years of plenty, when Joseph says to him, "Cheer
up, little mouse; my granaries are sufficient for you."
Again, I imagined a man high on a mountain peak,
saying to himself, "I breathe so many cubic feet of
air every year, I am afraid I will deplete all the
oxygen in the atmosphere." But the earth says to
him, "Breathe away, filling your lungs forever; my
atmosphere is sufficient for you."
O people of God, be great believers! Little faith
wil bring your souls to heaven, but great faith will
bring heaven to your souls. (Charles Spurgeon)
Reader, I love the men and women who have gone
before us and proved that God is more than enough!
"The other day I was riding home after a hard day's
work. I was very tired and deeply depressed, when
quickly, and as suddenly as a lightning bolt, the verse
came to me: "My grace is sufficient for you." When
I arrived home I looked it up in the Word, and it
finally came to me this way: MY grace is sufficient
for you." My response was to say, "Yes, Lord, I
should think it is.!" Then I bust out laughing.
Until that time, I had never understood what the
holy laughter of Abraham was. This verse seemed
to make unbelief totally absurd. I pictured a thirsty
little fish who was concerned about drinking the
river dry, with Father River saying, "Drink away,
little fish; my stream is sufficient for you." I also
envisioned a mouse afraid of starving after seven
years of plenty, when Joseph says to him, "Cheer
up, little mouse; my granaries are sufficient for you."
Again, I imagined a man high on a mountain peak,
saying to himself, "I breathe so many cubic feet of
air every year, I am afraid I will deplete all the
oxygen in the atmosphere." But the earth says to
him, "Breathe away, filling your lungs forever; my
atmosphere is sufficient for you."
O people of God, be great believers! Little faith
wil bring your souls to heaven, but great faith will
bring heaven to your souls. (Charles Spurgeon)
Reader, I love the men and women who have gone
before us and proved that God is more than enough!
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