“Ye are not under the law, but under GRACE” (Romans 6:14).
All your inward searching after faith, and your groaning over your own deficiencies, arises from your not yet grasping perfect grace, in all its extent and in all its glorious freeness. In yourself you are altogether without strength. God expects nothing, nothing, NOTHING of you. Don’t break your heart that you cannot find what is not there, and cannot render to Him what He does not ask; He gives everything.
When you find any defect, and fault, any inability, it is only what you ought to have expected, and your surprise and disappointment are only pride. Live by your dear Father’s gifts and care, He is your salvation. He asks nothing; He gives everything. He gave Christ for your sins; He gives Christ as your life. Be as FREE and as HAPPY, and without any sort of care, as He wants you to be. CAST ALL OF YOUR BURDEN ON HIM; all your care; all your way with all its variety and need; ALL, ALL, on Him.
J. G. M'Vicker (1826-1900)
Selected Letters with Brief Memoir of J. G. M'Vicker