A Call for Old-Fashioned Faith
THERE is a call for old-fashioned faith in God,—a faith that believes in his judgments as well as in his mercy, in his wrath as well as in his love. We need more fiber to our faith. To go through life trusting that somehow God will pick us up at the last day, and cleanse us, much as a king might do with a diamond that he had picked out of the mud, and place us in his crown, is a very unsatisfactory faith with which to face the day of judgment. If we live in the mud, it is more than probable that the mud will be our portion. We have no right to trust God's love where we would not obey his voice; we have no claim upon his mercy when we have all our lives ignored it.—The United Presbyterian.