he would not have known what to do
with it. So we may say that if God were to give us grace enough for
a lifetime, we should not know how to use it. He has given us the
privilege of drawing on Him day by day--not "forty days after
sight." There is plenty of grace in the bank of heaven; we need not
be afraid of its becoming exhausted.

We are asked to come _boldly_ to the throne of grace--as sons to a
father--that we may find grace. You have noticed that a son is very
much more bold in his father's house than if he were simply a
servant. A good many Christians are like servants. If you go into a
house, you can soon tell the difference between the family and the
servants. A son comes home in the evening; he goes all over the
house--perhaps talks about the letters that have come in, and wants
to know all that has been going on in the family during his absence.
It is very different with a servant, who perhaps does not leave the
kitchen or the servants' hall all day except when duty requires it.

Suppose some one had paid a million dollars into the bank in your
name, and had given you a check-book so that you could draw out just
as you wanted: would you go to work and try to live on ten dollars a
month? Yet that is exactly what many of us are doing as Christians.
I believe this low standard of Christian life in the Church is doing
more to manufacture infidels than all the skeptical books that were
ever written.

Hear what the Apostle says: "My God shall supply _all_ your need."
Look at these words carefully. It does not say He will supply all
your _wants_. There are many things we want that God has not
promised to give. It is "your _need_" and "_all_ your need." My
children often want many things they do not get; but I supply all
they need, if it is in my power to give it to them. I do not supply
all their wants by any means. My boy would probably want to have me
give him a horse; when I know that what he really needs, perhaps, is
grace to control his temper. Our children might want many things
that it would be injurious for them to have. And so, though God may
withhold from us many things that we desire, He will supply all our
need. There can come upon us no trouble or trial in this life, but
God has grace enough to carry us right through it, if we will only
go to Him and get it. But we must ask for it day by day. "As thy
days, so shall thy strength be."

I met a man once in Scotland who taught me a lesson that I shall