Our great hindrance

“Self-dependence is the grand hindrance of our efficiency….to lean upon human instrumentality, instead of Almighty power- is like Elisha trusting in his staff, instead of his Master….We are ready to say of some bright momentary prospect- ‘This same shall comfort us concerning our work:’ so that, when ‘we see not our signs:’ or when, ‘as the morning cloud and the early dew,’ they have ‘gone away,’ we are on the verge of despondency…The main difficulty, therefore, is not in work, but in ourselves; in the conflict with our own unbelief, in the form of either indolence or self-dependence.”   Charles Bridges, “The Christian Ministry”

~ by synopsisblog on September 26, 2007.