When Knowledge Is Better than "Trusting"
WHEN our trust means uncertainty, it ceases to be trust. Is not this sort of mistaken trust the cause of much joyless Christianity? A man who evidently likes ringing conviction speaks a word of caustic reproof of the joyless, uncertain Christian, in a letter to a correspondent: "Ask these same people whether they are Republicans or Democrats, and they will answer very promptly; but if you ask them whether they are Christians, you have to wait until they get their faces pulled into the proper degree of sadness before you get the answer that they trust they are. Why a man knows he is a Republican, and trusts he is a Christian, is a mystery to me." When our trust is directed toward the Lord Jesus Christ, it ought to be knowledge — unshakeable, radiant, irrepressible, contagious knowledge. "I know Him whom I have believed," triumphantly declared Paul. We do not really trust God until we know that God is trustworthy. — Sunday School Times.