Faith | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 8, 1865

Faith.

FAITH is a very simple thing, Though little understood: It frees the soul from death's dread sting By resting in the Blood.

It looks not on the things around, Nor on the things within: It takes its flight to scenes above, Beyond the spheres of sin.

Faith is not what we feel or see: It is a simple trust In what the God of love has said Of Jesus as "the Just."

The Perfect One that died for me, Upon his Father's throne Presents our names before our God, And pleads himself alone.

What Jesus is, and that alone, Is Faith's delightful plea; It never deals with sinful self, Nor righteous self, in me.

It tells me I am counted "dead" By God, in his own Word; It tells me I am "born again" In Christ my risen Lord.

In that he died, he died to sin; In that he lives—to God; Then I am dead to Nature's hopes, And justified through blood.

If he is free, then I am free From all unrighteousness; If he is just, then I am just; He is my Righteousness.

What want I more to perfect bliss? A body like his own Will perfect me for greater joys Than angels' round the throne.