He Giveth More Grace

  I reached way down in my storehouse of information during the week and I brought out a song that has been a help and encouragement and challenge to me for years. The lady who wrote this song was a very gifted and talented individual who desired to be a concert pianist. And she developed a talent and gift for poetry. She was also a schoolteacher. Early in her career of teaching she developed a very severe case of arthritis. The doctors told her she would end up an invalid. Sure enough, as the years went by, she ended up in bed unable to use her fingers to write. However, she devised unique ways of writing her poems, which became songs. One of the ways she wrote was to type out her poems on a manual typewriter with her knuckles. And if you would read the biography of Annie Johnson Flint, you would appreciate this song even more, as she wrote it in great affliction.

He Giveth More Grace
He giveth more grace when the burdens grow greater,
He sendeth more strength when the labors increase;
To added afflictions He addeth His mercy,
To multiplied trials, His multiplied peace.

     When we have exhausted our store of endurance,
     When our strength has failed ere the day is half done,
     When we reach the end of our hoarded resources
     Our Father’s full giving is only begun.
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His love has no limits, His grace has no measure,
His power has no boundary known unto men;
For out of His infinite riches in Jesus
He giveth, and giveth, and giveth again.

  She, like the Apostle Paul, as we find in II Corinthians the 12th chapter, verses 7-10, embraced her affliction and boasted in her weakness, knowing that by God’s grace and mercy and favor she would be strong. “But He gives more grace. Therefore, He says: ‘God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble’” (James 4:6).
  And we know that God giveth, and giveth, and giveth again, by His grace.