who puts His grace and power in me.” Listen to Christ again as He says, “My grace is sufficient for thee.” He is not saying, My grace will be suf ficient for thee. If you are in Christ, then His grace is sufficient now. Open your eyes to see what you have, and then open your heart to receive His grace, and you will not ask that your sorrow and suffering be taken from you. On the contrary, you will find His completeness to be your completeness. In Christ the Christian is com plete. Even if your sorrow follows you to your grave, you can die a complete Christian, for your Saviour says, “My grace is sufficient for thee.” He does not promise His ful ness for merely an hour, or a day, or a week, or a month, or a year, but for all the days of your life, and forever. His fulness is the fulness of the Godhead, eternal and unchang ing, sufficient for the entire journey of life.
lapse of time. And finally, God might respond with a denial. But, like Paul, we are slow to accept God’s denials. We make the mistake of concluding falsely that, if we do not get the thing for which we asked, then God did not answer our prayer. But God always answers the prayers of His children, in one way or another. In the midst of his trial, Paul discov ered in actual experience the love of God in action, “grace for grace,” grace upon grace, one measure of grace flowing after another measure of grace, new grace to replace old grace. Sorrow and suffering, as we know them, are far too much for any of us to endure in our own strength. But when Christ’s fulness becomes our fulness all is changed. Then we can say with Paul, “I can do all th in g s through C h ris t which strengtheneth me” (Phil. 4:13). Or, as a Spanish edition of the New Testament puts it, “I can stand all things through the indwelling Christ
Pictured in front of Myers Hall are the members of the graduating class of Talbot Theological Seminary. Dr. Charles L. Feinberg, Dean, is seated in the front row (center).
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