A STRAIT TESTS

A STRAIT TESTS

In every case of defection it is not the strait or the crisis which is the origin of it; the moral bankruptcy had occurred before, but the actual closing, the excuse for it, had not come. In every strait there must be a distinct advance or retrogression; you must rise by divine power, or sink to the carnal mind. It could not possibly be otherwise; and the constant excuse that you may hear, I am where I always was, is quite enough of itself to condemn the speaker.

When the Lord is with His own in any strait, there must be power, and with His power, a fuller maintenance of all His counsels. The glories of the sanctuary are better known, and the testimony brighter.