“Underneath are the everlasting arms.” 
              — Deuteronomy 33:27

God-the eternal God-is himself our support at all times, and especially
when we are sinking in deep trouble. There are seasons when the
Christian sinks very low in humiliation. Under a deep sense of his
great sinfulness, he is humbled before God till he scarcely knows how
to pray, because he appears, in his own sight, so worthless. Well,
child of God, remember that when thou art at thy worst and lowest, yet
“underneath” thee “are everlasting arms.” Sin may drag thee ever so
low, but Christ’s great atonement is still under all. You may have
descended into the deeps, but you cannot have fallen so low as “the
uttermost”; and to the uttermost he saves. Again, the Christian
sometimes sinks very deeply in sore trial from without. Every earthly
prop is cut away. What then? Still underneath him are “the everlasting
arms.” He cannot fall so deep in distress and affliction but what the
covenant grace of an ever-faithful God will still encircle him. The
Christian may be sinking under trouble from within through fierce
conflict, but even then he cannot be brought so low as to be beyond the
reach of the “everlasting arms”-they are underneath him; and, while
thus sustained, all Satan’s efforts to harm him avail nothing.

This assurance of support is a comfort to any weary but earnest worker
in the service of God. It implies a promise of strength for each day,
grace for each need, and power for each duty. And, further, when death
comes, the promise shall still hold good. When we stand in the midst of
Jordan, we shall be able to say with David, “I will fear no evil, for
thou art with me.” We shall descend into the grave, but we shall go no
lower, for the eternal arms prevent our further fall. All through life,
and at its close, we shall be upheld by the “everlasting arms”-arms
that neither flag nor lose their strength, for “the everlasting God
fainteth not, neither is weary.”

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