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  NOT DESPISED
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: God's strength is available to us even in our weakness, and He
will not despise our infirmities.

Topics: "Divine Strength", "Christian Hope"
Scripture References: Romans 8:26

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about finding strength in God when our
flesh and heart fail, emphasizing that God is our eternal portion and
source of strength. She encourages making allowances for physical
infirmities and heaviness, reminding that Christian life is a principle,
not just a feeling. Tileston urges believers to bring their struggles
and weaknesses to Christ, who understands and cares for us like a
tender-hearted surgeon for a lame child.

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My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the strength of my heart, and
my portion for ever.

PSALMS 73:26

O, LITTLE heart of mine! shall pain

Or sorrow make thee moan,

When all this God is all for thee,

A Father and thine own?

FRUERICK W. FABER

MAKE allowance for infirmities of the flesh, which are purely physical.
To be fatigued, body and soul, is not sin; to be in "heaviness" is not
sin. Christian life is not a feeling; it is a principle: when your
hearts will not fly, let them go, and if they "will neither fly nor go,"
be sorry for them and patient with them, and take them to Christ, as you
would carry your little lame child to a tender-hearted, skilful surgeon.
Does the surgeon, in such a case, upbraid the child for being lame?

ELIZABETH PRENTISS

When you feel ill and indisposed, and when in this condition your prayer
is cold, heavy, filled with despondency, and even despair, do not be
disheartened or despairing, for the Lord knows your sick and painful
condition. Struggle against your infirmity, pray as much as you have
strength to, and the Lord will not despise the infirmity of your flesh
and spirit.

FATHER JOHN

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