Matthew 17:20
"Faith as a grain of mustard seed"
We have the idea that God rewards us for our faith. It may be so in the initial stages, but we do not earn anything by faith; faith brings us into right relationship with God and gives God His opportunity. God has frequently knock the bottom board out of your experience in order to get you in contact with Himself. God wants you to understand that it is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. Your earlier life of faith was narrow and intense, settled around a little circle of experience that had as much sense in it, as it did faith. full of light and sweetness; then God withdrew His conscious blessings in order to teach you to walk by faith. You are worth far more to Him now than you were in your days of conscious delight and thrilling testimony.
Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find difficult to trust God, but the God's character has to be clear in our minds. Never confound the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life. Faith in the Bible is faith in God against everything that contradicts Him; I will remain true to God's character no matter what He may do. "Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him"---this is the main utterance of faith in the whole Bible.
May God Bless You
And Your Families
Minister: Robert A. Lail Sr.
The Cross Life Ministry
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