"Is"—the Key to Victory by Charles Trumble
A fact is often a more useful thing, for immediate needs, than a promise. That is why God has given us, in His Word, so many clear statements concerning facts that we need to know, along with His precious promises.
It is a very precious truth, on the one hand, that if we ask God, in the name of the Lord Jesus, to do certain things, He will do them. He has pledged His word to us for this, and He is the truth: He keeps His word. But there are certain circumstances in which it is even more valuable for us to know, not that He will do a certain thing if we ask Him, but that He is doing it anyway, and therefore we do not even need to ask Him. God's promise to do, upon our request, is one rich part of our Christian life; but there is a sense in which certain facts that God declares are so, whether we ask or not, make an even richer part of our life.
At a series of meetings on
the Victorious Life, held in Toronto, the speaker told of the way of deliverance from certain temptations that come like a flash of lightning in their instantaneous unexpected- ness, when there is not time to pray or ask the Lord for deliverance. At such times our safety lies, not in a prayer for deliverance, for there is not time for that, but rather in the fact that Christ is delivering us without our asking Him; and in such an instant, as always, we are to thank our Lord for deliverance, not ask Him for it. For the Lord does not say to us, "My grace will be sufficient for thee whenever thou askest for it." He says, "My grace is sufficient for thee." That won- derful word is not a promise: it is a statement of fact.
Some time after the meet- ings the speaker received a letter from a Christian worker in Toronto, who had for years known about the truth of victory by faith, yet who had been unsatisfied and hungry in
his spiritual life. Now he wrote: "Your word of illustration about the fraction of a second being insufficient for the framing of a prayer touched the point of my difficulty. The great big "IS" goes with me as my guardian, and I am experi- encing something new. You know my head troubles me so that I can go to but few meet- ings and do little evening work, and my nerves have been frazzled and jangling; but I know He can and will take care of the things that crop up suddenly." Yes, He will do this because He is doing this.
That little two-letter verb "is" in our Lord's wonderful word to Paul and through him to every member of the body of Christ, "My grace is sufficient for thee," is a veritable rock of ages. The writer of this editorial, finding marvelous strength ...
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