Who hath despised little days (asks the Lord by the Prophet Zechariah), the day of small things. Be strengthened in the Lord, and in the might of His power, and as David says of his enemies, so we, feeble and corrupt as we are, and often seeming as if we had scarcely set forth to any purpose in the way to Heaven, may say of our temptations and spiritual difficulties: They surrounded me like bees, and they burned like fire among thorns, and in the name of the Lord I was revenged on them. Only let us set ourselves, with all our might, and a steady resolution, to mortify the old man, and to crucify all the wrong affections of the flesh, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us; looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who is set down at the right hand of the throne of God, as a great and mighty conqueror, who will shew the perfection of His own power in our weakness, if we lay hold on His strength. With confidence apply to Him, who is an Almighty Saviour, and when He joins His strength with us, with our weakness, we need not fear anything. We shall break the old serpent's head, though he may bruise our heel. He, the compassionate, loving Jesus, does not despise our little days. It is written of Him: He shall deliver the poor from the mighty, and the needy that hath no helper; their name shall be honourable in His sight.
Oft in trouble and in woe,
Onward, Christians, onward go,
Fight the fight, maintain the strife,
Strengthened with the Bread of Life.
- text taken from Daily Bread - Bring a Few Morning Meditations for the Use of Catholic Christians by Father Richard Waldo Sibthorp