Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ unto Salvation!
"Ye
believe in God, BELIEVE ALSO IN ME."
-JOHN
14:1 [KJV]
To
believe in God is to believe in Him as He has manifested Himself in
His dear Son in all the fulness of His love, in all the riches of His
grace, and in all the depth of His mercy. God must be seen, not in
the terrors of a holy law, but in the mercy and truth of the glorious
gospel of the Son of God, and thus be approached and believed in as
the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our Father in Him.
How few see and realise this, and yet how sorely exercised are many
of the living family upon this point!
To
believe in God in such a way as to bring pardon and peace into their
conscience; to believe in God so as to find manifest acceptance with
Him; to believe in God so as to call him Abba, Father, and
feel that the Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we
are His children; to believe in God so as to find Him a very present
help in trouble; to receive answers to prayer, to walk in the light
of His countenance, to have His love shed abroad in the heart, to be
manifestly reconciled to Him, and feel a sense of His manifested
goodness and mercy— this is to believe in God through Jesus Christ.
And
O how different is this from merely believing about God from what we
see in nature that He is the Creator of all things, or from what we
may have realised of His footsteps in providence that He watches over
us as regards the things that perish, or from seeing in the letter of
the word that He is the God of all grace to those who fear His name!
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
June
7th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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