Excerpt from The Weakness of God: And Other Sermons "The weakness of God is stronger than men." - 1 Cor. 1. 25. The apostle states here a general proposition, having in view a particular application. As a general proposition it is true, and has many illustrations, that the weakness of God is stronger than men. Take Moses in the ark of bulrushes. An infant three months old, the child of two Hebrew slaves, put forth of their house because its life was in danger at home, laid in its frail bassinet among the reeds of the river; if found, likely to be given up to death; if not found, likely to afford a meal for a crocodile; there is a picture of weakness.

But it was the weakness of God, a weak thing in which God had an interest, and so it came one day to prove stronger than Pharaoh with his chariots and horsemen and all the might of Egypt at his back. Take David. Samuel goes down to Bethlehem to anoint a king in the house of Jesse. He thinks he has found one in Eliab. "Surely," he says, as he looks on Jesse's stalwart and soldier-like first-born, "Surely the Lord's anointed is before Him." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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