SPIRITUAL
GROWTH; SPIRITUAL VICTORY

A lifetime of observation, Bible reading and prayer has led to the conclusion that the only thing that can hinder a Christian’s progress is the Christian himself.…

God has so ordered things that His children may grow as successfully in the middle of a desert as in the most fruitful land. It is necessary that this should be so, seeing that the very world itself is a field where nothing good can grow except by some kind of miracle. The old hymn asks the rhetorical question, “Is this vile world a friend to grace, to help me on to God?” And the implied answer is no. Grace operates without the help of the world.… Attitude is all-important. Let the soul take a quiet attitude of faith and love toward God, and from there on the responsibility is God’s. He will make good on His commitments. There is not on earth a lonely spot where a Christian cannot live and be spiritually victorious if God sends him there. He carries his own climate with him or has it supplied supernaturally when he arrives. Since he is not dependent for his spiritual health upon local moral standards or current religious beliefs, he lives through a thousand earthly changes, unaffected by any of them. He has a private supply from above and is in reality a little world within a world and very much of a wonder to the rest of creation.

1 Kings 17:3–6; Colossians 4:5–6

We Travel an Appointed Way, 30, 31.