God is His own equivalent, and God needs nothing but Himself to achieve the great purposes on which He has set His heart.

God gave Moses a blank, and as life went forward for the next forty years, Moses kept filling in the blank with his special need. He filled in fearlessness before Pharaoh. He filled in guidance across the Red Sea. He filled in manna for the whole population. He filled in water from the rock. He filled in guidance through the wilderness. He filled in victory over Amalek. He filled in clear revelation at Sinai. And so Moses, for the rest of his life, had little else to do than to go quietly alone, and taking God’s blank checkbook, signed by God’s name, I AM WHO I AM, write in I AM guidance; I AM bread. He presented the check and God honored it.

And whenever you come to live upon God’s plan as Moses from that moment did, you may absolutely trust God. And when you come down to the hoar-head you will say, “Not one of all the good promises the LORD your God gave you has failed” (Joshua 23:14). A. B. SIMPSON

Joshua had tried God forty years in the brick kilns, forty years in the desert, and thirty years in the Promised Land, and this was his dying testimony. D. L. MOODY

Whatever life may bring to you, “God” will ring true to you: Star in your sky— Food in your store— Staff in your hand— Friend by your side— Light on your path— Joy in your heart— In your ears music— In your mouth songs. Yes, rapid as your race may run, And scorching as may shine your sun, And bitter as may blow your blast, And lonely as your lot be cast— Whatever life may bring to you, “God” will aye ring true to you. CHARLES HERBERT

Strengthen thou me according unto thy word.

Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou has caused me to hope.—O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.—Ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.

Fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.—Be strong, . . . and work: for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts.—Not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.

Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.