Forced to lean upon
God
Let all
the glory be to Him who loves us remembering that his gifts were
held in an earthen vessel to show the transcendent power which
belongs to God and not to man (2 Cor. 4:7)
“I pity the young
Christian who leans upon some pastor, some teacher, some other
Christian. Oftentimes it’s necessary for some great crisis
to take place which removes the individual who has become
the foundation so that the believer may find himself with no
human resource. Then he is forced to lean upon God, and
thus he becomes established, firm on the Rock. Do we detect
this in Isaiah’s experience, ‘In the year that king Uzziah died,
I saw the Lord…’ Did he have his eyes on the king rather than on
the Lord? Then God removed the king and the prophet could see
past his ideal, his earthly ideal, and let his gaze come to rest
upon the Lord Himself. O this must be the experience of
everyone who is to grow mightily in the Lord. If anyone is
leaning upon you, point them away from yourself and to the Lord
alone. If you are leaning on some human leader, ask the Lord to
turn your eyes above and beyond the one who may have been the
means of bringing you rich blessing, on to the source of all
blessing.”
- Donald Grey
Barnhouse, Eternity Magazine
Whom have
I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire
beside thee. - Ps 73:25
