Inadequate Preaching

The evangelist Alexander Maclaren was said to have been “overwhelmed with failure” after preaching a sermon, while people went away blessed and inspired. I not seldom come across this reaction in preachers, in varying degrees -- of defeat, deflation, depression. At the close of a service, one preacher blamed himself aloud to me even before the congregation had left the pews. OBSERVATION: I seldom if ever have such feelings -- although I did at one time -- and I think the reason is a theological one. God will do a work with a sermon -- and already did, in the preparing of it.