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According to Your Faith, July 26
Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto
you.
Matthew 9:29
.
It is our duty, as children of God, to talk faith, and not doubt. We are
to be hopeful and cheerful in the Lord. Let us not look on the dark side of
circumstances, but look up, and believe in the One whom God gave to the
world to save us from our sins. Christ accomplishes our salvation by inspiring
faith in our hearts and a belief in the truth. The truth makes free; and those
whom the Son makes free are free indeed. Let us seek to honor God by
revealing a constantly increasing confidence in the assurance that He will
accept every soul who serves Him in sincerity.
We are the Lord’s little children, and we are to be led and upheld by Him.
If we will learn lessons from the kindness and patience and tenderness of
Jesus, we will be a blessing to all with whom we are associated. The Lord
would have us take comfort in His promises, and praise Him much more than
we do. “Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me” (
Psalm 50:23
). Let us learn
how to express our gratitude to God for His wonderful condescension and
love for mankind.
The only begotten Son of God consented to leave the heavenly courts and
come to our world to live with an ungrateful people who refused His gracious
mercies. He consented to live a life of poverty, and to endure suffering and
temptation. He became a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And the
Word declares, “We hid as it were our faces from him” (
Isaiah 53:3
). Of His
own disciples, Peter, denied Him, and Judas betrayed Him. The people whom
He came to bless rejected Him. They put Him to shame and caused Him
untold suffering. They placed upon His head a crown of thorns that pierced
His holy temples. They beat Him with a scourge, and then they nailed Him to
the cross. Yet amid it all, no word of complaint escaped His lips....
Christ bore all this suffering in order to obtain the right to confer eternal
righteousness upon as many as would believe on Him. O, when I think of
this, I feel that no complaint should ever escape my lips....
When we are having a hard time, let us consider how much our salvation
cost the God of the universe.—
Letter 232, July 26, 1908
, to Brother and Sister
M. Hare, workers in the Southern States.
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