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  THE LIMITS OF OUR GRACE ARE THOSE OF OUR TEMPTATION.
  by Francois Fenelon
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Summary: God's grace is proportioned to our patience, and He sets
boundaries for our trials, reminding us of His faithfulness in times of
suffering.

Topics: "Gods Sovereignty", "Temptation And Grace"
Scripture References: Job 38:11, Psalm 46:1, Psalm 93:4, Isaiah 43:2, 1 Corinthians 10:13

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Francois Fenelon preaches about the limits of our grace being the same
as our temptation, emphasizing God's faithfulness in not allowing us to
be tempted beyond what we can bear. He encourages trust in God's
sovereignty in proportioning suffering to the patience bestowed by Him,
likening it to the ebb and flow of the ocean where God sets the boundary
for trials. Fenelon highlights the tendency for individuals to feel
overwhelmed by future trials and the grace prepared to meet them, but
reassures that God is always in control, ensuring that the waves of life
will not engulf us beyond what we can handle.

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LETTER XXXVII.

The limits of our grace are those of our temptation.

I sympathize sincerely with the sufferings of your dear sick one, and
with the pain of those whom God has placed about her to help her bear
the cross. Let her not distrust God, and He will proportion her
suffering to the patience which He will bestow. No one can do this but
He who made all hearts, and whose office it is to renew them by his
grace. The man in whom He operates, knows nothing of the proper
proportions; and, seeing the extent, neither of his future trials, nor
of the grace prepared to meet them, he is tempted to discouragement and
despair. Like a man who had never seen the ocean, he stands, at the
coming in of the tide, between the water and an impassable wall of rock,
and thinks he perceives the terrible certainty that the approaching
waves must surely engulf him; he does not see that he stands within the
point, at which God, with unerring finger, has drawn their boundry-line,
and beyond which they shall not pass.

God proves the righteous as with the ocean; he stirs it up, and makes
its great billows seem to threaten our destruction, but He is always at
hand to say, thus far shalt thou go and no farther. "God is faithful,
who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able." (1 Cor.
x. 13.)

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