But the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits (Dan. 11:32).
Our strength comes from God. It is only when we know Him that we can be strong and in His strength do exploits. When the emperor of Germany dismissed his great counselor, Bismarck, the London publication Punch carried a cartoon by Tenniel. It represented Bismarck's leaving a great ocean liner while the emperor looked on, watching the departing guide with haughty self-satisfaction. The cartoon was entitled "Dropping the Pilot." J. H. Jollett, a well-known preacher of the 1800s, refers to this and says it portrays experiences in his own life. "But," he adds, "instead of a fallible statesman, I have dismissed the infallible God; I have dropped the Eternal Pilot. I have called it self-dependence, and with a great show of courtesy I have bowed the Lord out of the boat. Then I have taken the helm into my own hands, and steered by my own counsels, and the end has been sorrow and loss."
Have we not all done this at times? We bow the Lord out of our life, and then make wreckage of it. Trying to do exploits in such days as these, we must know God. "Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength" (Isa. 26:4). We may be very weak. But we may "be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might" (Eph. 6:10). Let us every day seek for___
God's might to direct me,
God's power to protect me,
God's wisdom for learning,
God's eye for discerning,
God's ear for my hearing,
God's Word for my clearing.
MEDITATION PRAYER: "For thou art the God of my strength:...why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?" (Ps. 43:2).
Our strength comes from God. It is only when we know Him that we can be strong and in His strength do exploits. When the emperor of Germany dismissed his great counselor, Bismarck, the London publication Punch carried a cartoon by Tenniel. It represented Bismarck's leaving a great ocean liner while the emperor looked on, watching the departing guide with haughty self-satisfaction. The cartoon was entitled "Dropping the Pilot." J. H. Jollett, a well-known preacher of the 1800s, refers to this and says it portrays experiences in his own life. "But," he adds, "instead of a fallible statesman, I have dismissed the infallible God; I have dropped the Eternal Pilot. I have called it self-dependence, and with a great show of courtesy I have bowed the Lord out of the boat. Then I have taken the helm into my own hands, and steered by my own counsels, and the end has been sorrow and loss."
Have we not all done this at times? We bow the Lord out of our life, and then make wreckage of it. Trying to do exploits in such days as these, we must know God. "Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength" (Isa. 26:4). We may be very weak. But we may "be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might" (Eph. 6:10). Let us every day seek for___
God's might to direct me,
God's power to protect me,
God's wisdom for learning,
God's eye for discerning,
God's ear for my hearing,
God's Word for my clearing.
MEDITATION PRAYER: "For thou art the God of my strength:...why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?" (Ps. 43:2).
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