The New Life

Stumblings.
your weakness to Him, and reckon on Him to keep
you. Sing continually the song : "To Him that is
mighty to keep you, be the glory."
And then, let stumbling make you very prudent?-
By faith you shall strive and overcome. In the power
of your keeper and the joy and security of His help,
you shall have courage to watch. The firmer you
make your election, the stronger the certitude that
He has chosen you, and will not let you go, the more
conscientious shall you become, to live in all things
only for Him, in Him, through Him.^ Doing this,
the word of God says, you shall never stumble.
I/ord Jesus, a sinner who is ready to stumble every
moment would give honor to Thee, who art mighty
to keep from stumbling : Thine is the might and the
power : I take Thee as my keeper. I look to Thy
love which has chosen me, and wait for the fulfilment
of Thy
*'
word : Ye shall never stumble." Amen.
1. Let your thoughts about what the grace of God can do for
you, be taken only from the word of God. Our natural expectations—that
we must just always be stumbling—are wrong.
They are strengthened by more than one thing. There is secret
unwillingness to surrender everything. There is the example
of so many sluggish Christians. There is the unbelief that cannot
quite understand that God will really keep us. There is the
experience of so many disappointments, when we have striven
in our own power.
2. Let no stumbling be tolerated, for the reason that it is trifling.
1 Prov. xxviii. 14 ; Phil. ii. 12 ; i Pet. i. 17, i8.
' 2 Chron. xx. 15 ; Ps. xviii. 30, 37, xliv. 5, 9 ;
John v. 4, 5 ; Rom.
xi. 20 ; 2 Cor. i. 24 ; i Phil. ii. 13.
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