“Here let us pause,” he said,
At peep of dawn’
“Nay, comrade, let our tread
Lead up and on!”
“Here let us pause!” he cried,
When noontide shone;
“Nay, comrade, let our stride
Lead up and on!”
“Here let us pause!”–his gaze
The night upon;
“Nay, comrade, let our ways
Lead up and on!”
“Here let us pause!” –O heart,
Till life be gone,
Ever the braver part
Leads up and on!”
We too easily set limits to our own ability. We do not know our own power. We face a difficulty and think we cannot master it, and do not try. Any of us might accomplish a great deal more than we do. Jesus said, “All things are possible with God.” The preposition “with” is the key to the meaning of this saying. Many persons take the words to mean only that God can do everything, that nothing is impossible to him. But what Jesus says is that a man with God can do impossible things. We know that God is omnipotent. Job said, “I know that thou canst do all things, and that no purpose of thine can be restrained.” It gives us confidence, in the midst of dangers, in the face of enemies, or when troubles are about us, to know that God is stronger than the strongest. “If God be for us, who is against us?” When we have some duty to do which is too hard for us with our little power, it gives us immeasurable comfort to know that God can do it. Yet God des not do our duty for us.
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