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Doubting Nothing, January 8
Faith in my Life
O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
Matthew 14:31
Life is not all made up of pleasant pastures and cooling streams.
Trial and disappointment overtake us; privation comes; we are brought
into trying places. Conscience-stricken, we reason that we must have
walked far away from God, that if we had walked with Him, we should
not have suffered so. Doubt and despondency crowd into our hearts, and
we say, The Lord has failed us, and we are ill-used. Why does He permit
us to suffer thus? He cannot love us; if He did He would remove the
difficulties from our path....
He does not always bring us to pleasant places. If He did, in our self-
sufficiency we should forget that He is our helper. He longs to manifest
Himself to us, and to reveal the abundant supplies at our disposal, and He
permits trial and disappointment to come to us that we may realize our
helplessness, and learn to call upon Him for aid. He can cause cooling
streams to flow from the flinty rock.
We shall never know until we are face to face with God, when we
shall see as we are seen and know as we are known, how many burdens
He has borne for us, and how many burdens He would have been glad to
bear, if with childlike faith we had brought them to Him....
God’s love is revealed in all His dealings with His people; and with
clear, unclouded eyes, in adversity, in sickness, in disappointment, and in
trial we are to behold the light of His glory in the face of Christ and trust
to His guiding hand. But too often we grieve His heart by our unbelief....
God loves His children, and He longs to see them overcoming the
discouragement with which Satan would overpower them. Do not give
way to unbelief. Do not magnify your difficulties. Remember the love
and power that God has shown in times past.
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