We should certainly attempt always to follow Jesus, to walk as he walked, to speak as he spoke, to think as he thought, and to mold our whole conduct and conversation on the pattern that he has left us; yet our best attempts will leave us more and more convinced that our only hope for redemption, salvation, forgiveness, lies in the mercy of the Father and the merits of the Son. Pray for and make sure of an interest in these, for even after we have been made new creatures in Jesus Christ, the most that we can do – nor that without the aids of the Holy Spirit – is to creep along the path which the Savior walked, and leave the mark of our knees where he left the prints of his feet.

Samson’s great strength lay in his hair. Where does the Christian’s great strength lie?