I just couldn’t! - All The Good Seed Daily Devotionals for 2025

My grace is sufficient for you, for my strength is made perfect in weakness.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
2 Corinthians 12:9; Philippians 4:13.

I just couldn't!
Commenting on the expression, "My grace is sufficient for you", an evangelist confirmed that God's grace enables us to face anything. One of his listeners sought him out the next day to embarrass him by asking him point-blank:

"Have you the grace to die as a martyr?" - "No," was the immediate reply, "but today I have the grace to take the meeting for which I have been invited." We can easily torment ourselves with the idea of enduring a difficult trial. We are amazed at the way martyrs have mounted the scaffold singing hymns. We have admired the way a Christian friend has gone to hospital for a serious and risky operation. "I just couldn't", we think.

We forget that the God of those martyrs or of our friend is also our God. If we count on Him, He will not fail to grant us, in time of need, the grace necessary to undergo the circumstances ahead of us to His glory (1 Corinthians 10:13)

If He gave us the necessary strength and courage to face things beforehand, we should risk believing ourselves sufficiently strong and forget that we need Him. God likes His children to call upon Him, day by day, for important and seemingly insignificant things. He mercifully invites us to banish the worries of tomorrow. "Sufficient for the day is its own trouble" (Matthew 6:34). What a comfort it is to know that our God has abundant grace!

Today's reading: Daniel 1:9-21 · Psalms 37:21-29