“But God” (Luke xii. 20).
What else do we really need? What else is He trying to make us understand?
The religion of the Bible is wholly supernatural. The one resource of
faith has always been the living God, and Him alone. The children of
Israel were utterly dependent upon Jehovah as they marched through the
wilderness, and the one reason their foes feared them and hastened to
submit themselves was that they recognized among them the shout of a King,
and the presence of One compared with whom all their strength was vain.
“Wherein,” asked Moses, “shall we be separated from all other peoples of
the earth, except it be in this that Thou goest before us.”
A church relying on human wisdom, wealth or resources, ceases to be the
body of Christ and becomes an earthly society. When we dare to depend
entirely upon God and without doubt, the humblest and feeblest agencies
will become “mighty through God, to the pulling down of strongholds.” May
the Holy Spirit give to us at all times, His own conception of these two
great words, “But God.”