WAIT THOU *ONLY* UPON GOD

WAIT THOU ONLY UPON GOD

My advice to you, and that is the advice the most paternal that I could give you, is to lay your case simply and fully before the Lord. I believe the Lord is hindered from ^[p. 247] helping us, because we are not absolutely dependent on Him, and when He helps it is not only that we are relieved, but we are blessed. It may seem unfeeling to say so, but I am sure of it, that if you seek to be helped by any one, it will not be a permanent help. It will only help you for a moment, and will be succeeded by a greater distress than the former one; whereas if you plead with the Lord, as the man with his friend (Luke 11), you will be permanently as well as fully relieved. The Lord allows these straits on purpose to lead us to find the reality of His care, and the great blessing of dependence. The real measure of our strength divinely is the strait which we pass through with God. I feel for you much, but I know this is the only course divinely open to you, and the only help I can offer you is asking the Lord to lead you into it.

I know you are in a very trying position, but again I say, do not ask any one but the Lord to help you out of it, and then you will he helped in the very best way. I should rejoice to see you helped by Him, because I know that then there would be great spiritual gain to you from this trial.