Faith & Trust
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.
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.
The shortest way to believe is to believe.
True religion is supernatural at its beginning, supernatural in its continuance, and supernatural in its close. It is the work of God from first to last.
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.
God abideth faithful. He is faithful in His love; He knows no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
It is glorious to be far out on the ocean of divine love, believing in God, and steering for Heaven straight away by the direction of the Word of God.
Faith is the tongue that begs pardon, the hand which receives it, and the eye which sees it.
Faith is the simplest of all things, and perhaps because of its simplicity it is the more difficult to explain.
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.
Believe this, and all inability will disappear. As it is fabled of Midas that he turned everything into gold by his touch, so it is true of faith that it turns everything it touches into good.
Faith is believing that Christ is what He is said to be, and that He will do what He has promised to do, and then to expect this of Him.
You are not asked to trust in a dead Jesus, but in One who lives.
If God has justified a man it is well done, it is rightly done, it is justly done, it is everlastingly done.
It is ours to believe, it is the Lord’s to create us anew.
Faith cometh by hearing; therefore hear often. If I earnestly and attentively hear the gospel, one of these days I shall find myself believing that which I hear.
It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in the Christ in whom faith trusts.
If you look to Christ for your beginnings, beware of looking to yourself for your endings. He is Alpha. See to it that you make Him Omega also.
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