| The Secrets of a Beautiful Life |
Chapter 5 |
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So much for the human help. There was another source of help in our Lord’s Garden experience. If there had not been, he would have been utterly unhelped in all his sore need, for human friendship proved inadequate. “Being in an agony, he prayed.” He sought strength from heaven. He crept to his Father’s feet and made supplication to him and was heard.
As we watch him in his struggle, we see that he grows calmer and quieter as he prays. It is evident that divine help comes to him. He is sustained and strengthened. At length, when he comes from his pleading, his heart is at rest; his pleading has died away in the sweetest and divinest of peace.
We have the same infinite and unfailing source of help in our times of great need. Human friendship can go with us a little way, yet not into the inner depths of our experience of sorrow or trial. Human sympathy is very sweet, but it is weak, and ofttimes sleeps when we most need its cheer and comfort. But when the human ceases to avail, the divine is ready. In the face of life’s great needs, when no other help can come to us, God comes, and from his divine fullness gives all that we need.
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