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         This is the paradox of God, that those who are weak shall go from strength to strength, and those who are strong--who think themselves strong--shall go from weakness to weakness. For has it not been said that the first shall be last and the last shall be first? My ways are not your ways. My ways are higher than your ways. But you can know My ways. You can know the mind of Christ if you will put away your own thoughts and your own mind and the things of your own heart which tend only to poverty and weakness.
         You must look to Me for the strength that I have offered you. You must be willing to put away your strength for My strength, for your strength is but weakness in My eyes, and it must also be so in your eyes. Each person must realize this for himself.
         I lay before you strength and weakness. I will give you My strength if you will trade in your weakness which you have looked upon as strength, but that I have called weakness. Choose ye this day, and I shall give unto you bountifully if you shall be willing to give of your life that others might live. For he that seeks to save his life shall lose it. This is the paradox of God (ML #2992).



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