Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that divine assistance becomes apparent only after human efforts have been exhausted.
Corrie Ten Boom's quote reflects the idea that human beings should strive to do their best in any situation, but that ultimately, there are times when our own efforts will not suffice. It implies a reliance on a higher power, suggesting that only when we have tried everything possible and reached the limits of our capabilities can we truly see how divine intervention can make a difference in our lives.
In practice
In a motivational speech about perseverance, one might quote this to encourage others not to give up.
We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in Godβs work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.
And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.
Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.
God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART
A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.
Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
My faith always has been and always will be important to me.
I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith.
O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do.
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