p. 4 | HOW FAITH ACTS

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 18, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 11.

HOW FAITH ACTS.

I CAN only indicate how faith acts. It has, as it were, two hands. With the one hand it is constantly rolling upon Christ every worry, every sorrow, every trial, every crushing and overwhelming demand, so that never a thing comes to the soul for a moment or touches it, but that the soul at once relieves itself of its burden by casting that burden upon the Saviour. Oh! have you learned that secret? If not, ask the Holy Ghost to teach it to you, and to enable you, moment by moment, to live this blessed life, never carrying the burden more; but the moment you are aware of the pressure of any anxiety, roll it instantly and forever on Christ.

The other hand of faith is constantly appropriating, so that hour by hour, as the heart is sensible of present need, the hand is reaching out of Christ just that grace it requires. Thy patience, Lord, in moments of impatience; thy gentleness, Lord, in moments of irritability; thy strength, Lord, in moments of weakness; thy peace, when storms swirl around the soul.

Oh! learn to appropriate from the fullness of Jesus, hour by hour, what you require; and then, just as we are told the depths of the ocean are untroubled by the storms which sweep the surface; as we are told that in the midst of every whirlwind there is a point of rest; as we are told that amid the friction of ascending atoms in every candle there is one place of unbroken stillness—so the soul that has learned this secret of rest and of living in the will of God, is in a mighty entrenched castle, and receiving assistance from the resources of God,—that soul may go through and through the whirlwind and the storm of sorrow, but in its depths it will have perfect rest.—Life of Faith.