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A Dangerous Guest, August 9
And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have
no faith?
Mark 4:40
.
Why are we so weak in faith? ... We are so faithless, so unbelieving,
that the Lord cannot do for us those things which He longs to do. There
are doubts in our minds that are very saddening and very difficult to dispel.
These doubts that bow down the soul we should each one bravely face,
and tell the soul that we must conquer them at once. Make no delay, for
there can be no peace where faith is lost. We need not express these doubts,
for they may cause some poor soul to stumble. But examine them in the
light of God’s Word, then talk them over with Jesus with His Word of
promise in your hand, and pray for their removal. Tell the Lord, “Lord, I
believe; help thou mine unbelief” (
Mark 9:24
). Let not doubt be placed in
a comfortable, easy chair. It is a dangerous guest when it is left to rankle
in the mind and counteract faith....
Genuine faith is life, and where there is life there is growth. The
life which Jesus imparts cannot but grow more and more abundantly. A
living faith means an increase of vigor, a confiding trust, by which the
soul becomes a conquering power. He who drinks of the water of life
which Jesus gives, possesses within himself a well of water springing up
into everlasting life. Though it shall be cut off from all created springs,
it is fed from the hidden fountain. It is a perpetual spring, in immediate
communication with the inexhaustible fountain of life.
The Lord is dishonored when any who profess His name have an
emptiness. This misrepresents God. Nothing but Christ manifested in spirit
and life and character can reveal God to a world that knows Him not. The
soul renewed in the knowledge of God and Jesus Christ whom He has sent,
demonstrates its divine fullness in a living. growing experience—even the
fullness of Him that filleth all things
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