Strongest When Helpless

Stumbling proves undoubtedly our tendency to fall but it proves also our capacity to stand erect. Had we been lying supine we could never have stumbled. The very fact of our fall should increase our dependence upon God. God's assurance in this case is man's strength, as well as his caution. The very knowledge that he upholds us enables us to rise. If it were not so, or if it were a mere matter of human pride, the mere act of our infinite disgrace in sinning against him would keep us prostrate. But when we feel our nothingness, as was once said, we have nothing to fear. When we lose ourselves, we save ourselves. When we hang only on the Lord, we can alone have strength.--Anon