Such a spirit may be found, in a minor degree, in merely natural men. Let me, therefore, first of all, try to answer the question, - WHAT IS THAT SOUND SPIRIT WHICH WILL SUSTAIN A MAN’S INFIRMITIES? To bear that infirmity is not difficult when the spirit is sound and strong: “The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity.” I say again, that every man will have to bear an infirmity of some sort or other. I should greatly prefer to come into the condition of the apostle when he said, “Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” There are some such people who appear to have no afflictions and trials but as the apostle reminds us, “If ye be without chastisement, whereof all (the true seed of the Lord) are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons ” and none of us would wish to have that terrible name truthfully applied to us. I will not say so much as that but I am persuaded that there is no man in this world but has trial in some form or other, unless it be those whom God permits to have their portion in this life because they will have no portion of bliss in the life that is to come. It is said that there is a skeleton in some closet or other of everybody’s house. It is like that garden in this respect, - that the serpent is in it, and the trail of the serpent is over everything here. This world is not the Garden of Eden, and you cannot make it to be so. There will be something about each man’s infirmity which he would alter if he could or if he should not have any infirmity of body or of mind, he will have a cross to carry of some kind, - in his relatives, in his business, or in certain of his circumstances. He may not, however, have any infirmity of the body, he may enjoy the great blessing of health but he may have what is even worse, an infirmity of mind. It may be that his constitution from the very first will be inclined to certain diseases and pains, or possibly he may, in passing through life, suffer from accident or decline of health. 14.ĮVERY man, sooner or later, has some kind of infirmity to bear. “The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity but a wounded spirit who can bear?” - Proverbs xviii.
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