I pray, "God give me strength," and he gives me oppertunities to exercise my weakness. I pray "God give me patience," and he sends me a situation that try it. I pray "God, help me to be loving," and he sends me one who is hard to love. For the gifts of the Sprit must be trained, as the mind must be educated. Strength is an act of will, as we love, patience, charity, and the rest.
When I come to the end of my own strength, patience, and love, I have come also to the end of my own will, and there in the empty place God iswaiting for me. "You have given your own strength," he says, "but now you shall give mine. You have loved with your own heart; love now with mine."
Until I am emptied of myself, of my own will, God cannot fill me; for he can give only to those who have made room for him in their souls.
My will is not my own
Till thou hast made it thine;
If I would reach a monarch's throne
I must my crown resign
-George Matheson
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