Faith & Trust
It is safer always for you to be led of the Spirit into gospel liberty than to wear legal fetters.
See then, dear friend, that the weakness of your faith will not destroy you. A trembling hand may receive a golden gift. The Lord’s salvation can come to us though we have only faith as a grain of mustard seed. The power lies in the grace of God, and not in our faith.
The shortest way to believe is to believe.
You are not asked to trust in a dead Jesus, but in One who lives.
A jealous and holy distrust of self may give rise to the question even in the believer’s heart, but the continuance of such a doubt would be an evil indeed.
Faith occupies the position of a channel or conduit pipe. Grace is the fountain and the stream; faith is the aqueduct along which the flood of mercy flows down to refresh the thirsty sons of men.
The more burdens we put on his shoulders, the more precious will he be to us.
No lawful place, or gracious occupation, however mean, can debar us from communion with our divine Lord.
In matters of grace you need a daily supply. You have no store of strength. Day by day must you seek help from above.
Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition.
Vain are all our lookings around to companions and relatives; they are broken reeds if we lean upon them.
You have either to believe in Jesus or die; there is no hope for you but in Him. So, while you see others believe in the Lamb of God, and notice their joy and peace, you will yourself be gently led to believe. The experience of others is one of God’s ways of helping us to faith.
If God has justified a man it is well done, it is rightly done, it is justly done, it is everlastingly done.
If you, my reader, will not believe till you can understand all mysteries, you will never be saved at all; and if you allow self-invented difficulties to keep you from accepting pardon through your Lord and Saviour, you will perish in a condemnation which will be richly deserved.
To believe is simply to trust, to depend, to rely upon Christ Jesus.
God abideth faithful. He is faithful in His love; He knows no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
A daily portion is all that a man really wants. We do not need tomorrow’s supplies; that day has not yet dawned, and its wants are as yet unborn.
If I neglect prayer for never so short a time, I lose all the spirituality to which I had attained.
When we serve our Lord Jesus as believers should do, our God is with us; and though we have the whole world against us, if we have God with us, what does it matter?
Faith is the tongue that begs pardon, the hand which receives it, and the eye which sees it.
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