Extracts from Krummacher by Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Oct 16, 1855

Extracts from Krummacher.

By Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher

O THAT we were not so impatient when our gracious God occasionally denies our requests! How kind it is with respect to our real and best interests, that the Lord gives us according to his will, and not according to our own; and that he condescends so graciously to guard us against the attainment of our poor and often foolish wishes! We may rest assured that whenever we pray without success, that which we desire is not only not best for us, but it is either injurious, or at least inferior to what he really intends for us.

What a blessed gift is faith to the children of God. Its wondrous power deprives privations of their horrors; it nourishes us with the promises made to Abraham; it sustains us with the strong consolation of the oath divinely sworn unto Isaac; it gives us the staff of Jacob to support our steps; it enables us with Moses' rod to divide the sea, and with David we leap over the wall and rampart! O faith, faith! thou door-keeper of every sanctuary, thou master over all the treasures of God, may he that is thine Author draw near unto us; and he that is thy Finisher incline himself toward us.