(2 Tim. 1:3-8.)
We are not to expect never to be exercised, or troubled, or cast down, as though we were without feeling.
“They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.” (Psa. 69:21.) He thoroughly felt it all—the iron entered into His soul. “Reproach,” He says, “hath broken my heart.” (Psa. 69:20.)
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Paul had a “thorn in the flesh” (2 Cor. 12:7); and did he not feel it, think you? Ay, he felt it daily; and as “the messenger of Satan to buffet him.” (2 Cor. 12:7.)
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And what did he say? “Most gladly, therefore, will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” The power of God coming in our side does not lessen the feeling to us.
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