| The Secrets of a Beautiful Life |
Chapter 5 |
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Yet we are required to meet life victoriously. We are not to succumb to its stress or struggle. We are told that while our temptations are far more than a match for our strength, yet we need not fall in them. The task is set for us of being more than conquerors in all life’s trials. We are not to be crushed by sorrow. We are to rejoice always, though always enduring sore grief.
It is possible, therefore, for us to receive help from without our own little life, to make us equal to whatever we may have to bear or to endure. It is important that we learn how to live so that we can get this help. What are the sources from which we may draw strength in our time of need? Evidently they are twofold. We can be helped in a certain way by human hands; and we can be helped in the largest measure we need by the divine strength.
In all things the life of Christ is our pattern. He lived a human life to show us how to live. He did not meet life otherwise than we must meet it. He wrought no miracles to make trials easier for himself than they would be for his followers. In our Lord’s experience in Gethsemane we have an illustration of the way he sought help in time of great need, both from the human and the divine source.
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