ALMIGHTY GOD IS FAITHFUL
"He
staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong
in faith, giving glory to God; and being fully persuaded that, what
He
had promised, He
was able also to perform."
-ROMANS
4:20, 21 [KJV]
This,
then, was Abraham's faith. It was a firm credence in the promise of
God made to him, and yet a faith that lived under opposition, hoping
against hope, and being fully persuaded that what God had promised He
would perform. Our faith, then, if it be genuine, must resemble that
of Abraham. It must anchor in the truth of God as made life and
spirit to our soul. It must meet with every opposition from without
and within; from sin, Satan, and the world; from nature and flesh and
reason all combined against it. But in spite of all, it must hope
against hope, and be fully persuaded that what God has promised He is
able to perform; and thus by perseverance and patient waiting obtain
the victory.
Take
another example, that of Moses: his faith was of this nature. "By
faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son
of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the
people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season"
[HEBREWS
11:24, 25]. The
peculiar character of the faith of Moses was this, that though he was
highly exalted and might have enjoyed all the treasures and pleasures
of Egypt, yet he deliberately preferred to suffer affliction with the
people of God, than to enjoy all that wealth could offer or carnal
pleasure present; "having respect to the recompence of the
reward."
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
May
4th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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