All glory to God, who is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. (Ephesians 3:20 NLT)
Any power that can survive what we sometimes have to go through in the realm of
our own souls is a very great power indeed; and, believe me, this power that
works in the Church is going to survive all
the accumulated sensations of all the members of the
Body of Christ.
Now, bring all your misery together, bring all your
despair together, all your sensations, all the helplessness
of the outlook, and, if you are a child of God, there is a
power that works within which is more than sufficient
to meet and counter and triumph over all that. That is the
means by which God reaches His end in us, and if His
end in us is conformity to the image of His Son, then the
power that worketh in us is more than enough to meet
and overcome all that which is contrary to His Son in us.
Do you believe that? Not always! If we really
believed that in a thoroughgoing way we should never be
found occupied with ourselves, we should never be
depressed because of our imperfection, there would be
no room for any question as to our standing. Oh, if we
did but believe this, what triumphant people we should
be; for is it not true that the greater proportion of our
trouble, of our despair, of our unhappiness, is due to the
consciousness of our own imperfection – all that we are
that we would not be and should not be, and all that we
are not that we feel we ought to be. His eternal purpose
and His exceeding great power are linked together. Do
not forget that. We are the object of both, and His
exceeding great power is at work within us to effect the
purpose.