Let me ask you this question: Are you pressed beyond measure? Are you pressed above strength? Have you come to the place in your life where you say, “It’s all right for other people, but somehow it won’t work in my case…

What’s the use of me talking about a holy life?… What’s the use of me talking about full surrender?… What’s the use of me talking about the dedicated life of the ministry of Jesus Christ? I am in a particular situation for which there is no way out; there’s no way back; there’s no way through. I can’t find the answer!”

The answer is, to trust God just where you are:

Pressed out of measure and pressed to all length;
Pressed so intensely it seems beyond strength:
Pressed in the body, pressed in the soul,
Pressed in the mind till the dark surges roll;
Pressure by foe and pressure from friends,
Pressure on pressure till life nearly ends
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Is that it? Then listen. If you are pressed out, you are pressed in.

Pressed into knowing no helper but God,
Pressed into loving the staff and the rod,
Pressed into liberty where nothing clings,
Pressed into faith for impossible things,
Pressed into living a life in the Lord,
Pressed into living a Christ-life outpoured.

The reason why you are in that place today is simply in order that you might trust God. Do not pull strings. Do not hold committee meetings. Do not wangle things. Do not manipulate. Do not scheme, and do not plan. Sit still and trust God, and He will deliver you from your self-despair, from the sentence of death.