IN its simplicity and results, faith in God is harmony with God. In other words, faith is agreement with God. God speaks; faith says Amen. God promises; faith believes. God gives; faith receives. God commands; faith obeys. God is silent; faith is submissive, expectant.
How beautifully this works in the transformation of the character of the sinner. God speaks to his soul, tells him of his sin, arraigns him before the law as a transgressor. Faith responds in conviction, and confesses the sin. God speaks forgiveness and cleansing; faith receives, and the soul is set free, the sin is forgiven. God's goodness begets and develops love in the heart of the redeemed sinner, so that not alone does faith respond, but love also. From that time on in a living, growing experience there is another motive power added to the soul's service for God. It becomes not merely faith to receive of God's goodness, but "faith which worketh by love." Gal. 5:6. Neither is it a love which contents itself in profession; but "this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not grievous." 1 John 5:3. The soul gladly meets the test, "If ye love Me, keep My commandments."
Such faith, such love, does not question, equivocate, hesitate. It serves God, and develops a class of whom it is said: "Here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." Rev. 14:12.