[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-1115":3},"NOVEMBER 15 \nPressed out of measure (2Cor. 1:8).\r\nThat the power of Christ may rest upon me (2Cor. 12:9).\r\nGod allowed the crisis to close around Jacob on the night when he  bowed at Peniel in supplication, to bring him to the place where he   could take hold of God as he never would have done; and from that\r\nnarrow pass of peril, Jacob became enlarged in his faith and\r\nknowledge of God, and in the power of a new and victorious fife.\r\nGod had to compel David, by a long and painful discipline of years, to learn the almighty power and faithfulness of his God, and grow    up into the established principles of faith and godliness, which\r\nwere indispensable for his glorious career as the king of Israel.\r\nNothing but the extremities in which Paul was constantly placed\r\ncould ever have taught him, and taught the Church through him, the full meaning of the great promise he so learned to claim, \"My grace\r\n\r\nis sufficient for thee.\"\r\nAnd nothing but our trials and perils would ever have led some of\r\nus to know Him as we do, to trust Him as we have, and to draw from\r\nHim the measures of grace which our very extremities made indispensable.\r\nDifficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. When   hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and\r\nall-sufficiency of Jesus; and as we go forward, simply and fully trusting Him, we may be tested, we may have to wait and let\r\npatience have her perfect work; but we shall surely find at last the stone rolled away, and the Lord waiting to render unto us\r\ndouble for our time of testing. --A. B. Simpson.",1783499794036]