tian is supposed to rejoice, come what may.” The Bible says, “ Bear ye one another’s burdens,” (Gal. 6 :2 ) . We say, “ You would not be bearing this burden at all i f you were really trusting the Lord.” The Bible assures us, “ What time I am afraid I will trust in Thee.” We say, “ I am not afraid (even though we a r e ) ; I am trusting God.” Why not just admit that we are a fra id? His perfect love can only cast out our fea r i f we will acknowledge that there is fea r to be cast out (1 John 4 :1 8 ). “ My strength is made perfect in weakness,” the L o r d promises (2 Cor. 1 2 :9 ). You and I furnish the weakness, and through it His power is re vealed and He is glorified. Obviously, God does not expect to find absolute perfection o f faith in us. He has given us mul tiple assurances and examples to let us know that He offers His grace to ju st such fearfu l, doubt ing souls as we know ourselves to be. The incident o f the man’s cry ing out to Jesus, “ Help Thou mine unbelief!” (Mark 9 :2 4 ) is an in vitation to bring even our unbe lief to Him. James points us to Elijah, a man who was complete ly overwhelmed by discourage ment. He emphasizes the fa ct that even though E lijah was “ subject to like passions as we are” (James 5 :1 7 ), he received mi raculous answers to prayer. The Psalmist assures us that “ He knoweth our frame. He remem- bereth that we are dust” (Psalm 103 :13 ). The Holy Spirit prompt ed Paul to write to Timothy, “ I f we believe not yet He abideth faithful, He cannot deny Him self” (2 Tim. 2 :1 3 ). This is para phrased thu s: “ Even when we are too weak to have any faith left, He remains faithful to us and will help us, fo r He cannot disown us who are part o f Him self and He will always carry out His promises to us” (Living Let ters, The Paraphrased Epistles). We need not pull up our faith by the boot straps. The Lord is not
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