God shall be our strength

Here is a blessed word - God shall not only be our refuge, but God shall be our strength also. What strength? - to make every day of trouble so easy to us by his power as to carry us through it. God has said, and will stand to it, "As your day is, so shall your strength be." Afflictions even at a distance will appear very formidable, when viewed by unbelief. Our fears say, "O God, if I come to be tried this or that way, how shall I bear it?" But we do not know what we can bear till the trial comes; and we do not know what strength God can give us, or what a strong God he will be, until he is pleased to put us into a furnace of affliction… he will never leave us till we are helped quite over and quite through it.

George Whitefield Daily Readings, Randall J. Pederson, ed., Christian Focus Publications, 2010, excerpt from the May 9 reading.