Have Faith | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 29, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 41.

Have Faith.

HAVE faith in God. It will be an anchor to the soul in times of distress, and in tranquil days and nights it will sweeten every innocent pleasure and exalt the whole life. Men of faith are men of power, and according as men believe in God are they strong. Mental power, the refinement which education and culture give, are not to be despised; yet they may be and often have been perverted to the most selfish and sinful end. They give strength, but do not and cannot teach those endowed with them how to use wisely their gifts. True wisdom is the fruit of faith, and the highest power within man's reach is that with which faith in God clothes him, because faith takes hold on God and draws nourishment from him. Nothing is impossible to him who believes. But this faith must be living, not a mere belief which sleeps in the mind like a corpse in its coffin and shroud; it must be in the heart, vital, growing, and swaying the whole nature and giving direction to its life and activities. Such a faith must be an inspiration to noble deeds, an armor in battle, and will bring the most powerful motives to bear on the daily life.—Sel.