I Will Strengthen You

"Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand."    [Isaiah 41:10]

God has a strong reserve with which to discharge this engagement; for He is able to do all things, till we can drain dry the ocean of omnipotence, till we can break into pieces the towering mountains of almighty strength, we never need to fear. Do not think that the strength of man shall ever be able to overcome the power of God, would the earth’s huge pillars stand (1 Samuel v2:8), we have enough reason to abide firm in our faith. The same God who directs the earth in its orbit, who feeds the burning furnace of the sun, and trims the lamps of heaven, has promised to supply us with daily strength. While He is able to uphold the universe, dream not that He will prove unable to fulfil His own promises. Remember what He did in the days of old, in the former generations. Remember how He spoken and it was done; how He commanded, and it stood fast. Shall He that created the world grow weary? He hangs the world upon nothing (Job v26:7); shall He who do this be unable to support His children? Shall He be unfaithful to His word for want of power? Who is it that restrains the tempest? Do not He ride upon the wings of the wind (Psalm v18:10), and make the clouds His chariots (Psalm v104:3) , and hold the ocean in the hollow of His hand (Isaiah v40:12)? How can He fail us? When He has put such a faithful promise as this on record, will we for a moment indulge the thought that He has outpromised Himself, and gone beyond His power to fulfil? Oh, no! We can doubt any longer. You who are my God and my strength, I can believe that this promise shall be fulfilled, for the boundless reservoir of our grace can never be exhausted, and the overflowing storehouse of our strength can never be emptied by our friends or rifled by our enemies. “Now let the feeble all be strong, and make Jehovah’s arm their song.” Hallelujah, God bless