" That is David's way of expressing it. "We have no might against
this company, neither know we what to do." No might, no light--"but our
eyes are upon Thee," that was Jehoshaphat's experience of it. "Mine eyes
fail with looking upward. I am oppressed, Lord, undertake for me."

"When I had great trouble I always went to God and was wondrously carried
through; but in my little trials I used to try to manage them myself, and
often most signally failed." So Miss Havergal has expressed the experience
of many a Christian. God wants us "at our wit's end," and then He will
show His wisdom, love and power. How often we ask God to help, and then
begin to count up the human probabilities! God's very blessings become a
hindrance to us if we look from Him to them.

DECEMBER 16.

"I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the canker
worm and the caterpillar and the palmer worm, my great army, which I sent
among you" (Joel ii. 25).

A friend said to me once: "I have got to reap what I sowed, for God has
said: 'Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.' Then why don't
you apply this in the spiritual world, and compel the sinner to pay the
penalty of his sins?"

Christ has borne this penalty, and the same Christ has borne the natural
penalties, too, and delivered us out of condemnation in every sense.
Physical sufferings come to us, but not under the law of retribution, but
only as a Divine discipline. Every penalty has been fulfilled by Christ
and every law satisfied, and so far as we can have risen with Him into the
plane of spiritual and eternal life, we are lifted above the mere realm of
law, and we enter into the full effects of His complete satisfaction of
every claim against us. So it is true that even the wreck that sin has
brought upon our physical and temporal life is removed by His great
atonement, and the promise is made real to us, "I will restore to you the
years that the locust hath eaten."

DECEMBER 17.

"Be careful for nothing" (Phil. iv. 6).

What is the way to lay your burden down? "Take My yoke upon you, and learn
of Me; for I am meek and and lowly of heart, and ye shall find rest unto
your souls."

"For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." That is the way to take His
burden up. You will find that His burden is always light. Yours is a very
heavy one. Happy day if you have exchanged burdens and laid down your
loads at His blessed feet to take up His own ins