I find many people who lay hold of the Lord and get healing, but who remain weak and seem unable to get strength. Yet God has provided strength, and it is obtained from Him in the same way as healing—namely, by repentance, obedience and faith. “My God shall supply all your need,” applies to strength as well as to healing, and He supplies it in the same way and with the same willingness—strength for spirit, soul, and body. Jesus bore our infirmities (weaknesses) as truly as He bore our diseases, and for the same purpose—that we might be freed from them. Because He bore them, we do not have to bear them. He does not want us to bear them, and is delighted when we rise up and refuse to bear them. “Neither give place to the devil,” applies to weakness just as much as it applies to sin and sickness. Weakness is a part of the curse as truly as pain is, and “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse” (all of it); it is in the past tense—it is done. He is not only the Redeemer to buy us back from the curse, but also the Deliverer to set us free from it all, and longs to “see of the travail of His soul (the results of His sufferings) and be satisfied,” because He sees that we have the benefits of it. Psalm 29:11 says, “The Lord will give strength unto His people,” but some of His people are not strong. 1 Corinthians 6:20 commands us to glorify God in our bodies—a weak body does not glorify God. God created man in His own image, and “In the Lord…is strength,” so weakness is a part of the curse that Jesus bore for us.
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 05:55:49 +0000
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