Feeling and Faith Distinct
For we walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7. When we comply with the Written Word then we are to walk by faith. We dishonor God when we fail to trust Him after He has given such wonderful evidence of His compassionate love in the gift of His Son. We are to keep […]
Feeling Not a Safe Guide
The just shall live by his faith. Habakkuk 2:4. Many pass long years in darkness and doubt because they do not feel as they desire. But feeling has nothing to do with faith. That faith which works by love and purifies the soul is not a matter of impulse. It ventures out upon the promises […]
Saved by God’s Grace
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. Ephesians 2:8, 9. The divine favor, the grace of God bestowed upon us through Jesus Christ, is too precious to be given in exchange for any supposed meritorious […]
What Is Faith?
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1. Faith in Christ is not the work of nature, but the work of God on human minds, wrought in the very soul by the Holy Spirit, who reveals Christ, as Christ revealed the Father. Faith is the substance […]
Time for Meditation
But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. Psalm 1:2. Your last thought at night, your first thought in the morning, should be of Him in whom is centered your hope of eternal life.45Letter 19, 1895. Many seem to begrudge moments spent in […]
The Brightest Subject of Our Thoughts
My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord. Psalm 104:34. Why not keep your minds fixed on the unsearchable riches of Christ, that you may present to others the gems of truth? In the Word of God there are rich mines of truth that we may spend our whole […]
