Monday, April 26, 2010

on 1 Samuel 4

Such has been the spirit in which we have sometimes turned on the powerful sins which have asserted their mastery over us. WE have seen the ruin to which they were bringing us, we have winced at the shame and indignation which they were causing to others, we have felt insulted and outraged in any lingering sense of honour and nobility that may have escaped the general wreck, and we have turned on our tormentors. We have signed the pledge against the use of intoxicants, we have taken a solemn oath never more to yield to our besetting sin, we have vowed that we will be free. But within a month we have been back in the old state. It has not gone better with us than with Israel, for this battle is not to the strong, nor this race to the swift.

~Meyers, F. B.