OUR CHILDREN THE LORD'S PROPERTY, FAITH.

OUR CHILDREN THE LORD’S PROPERTY, FAITH.

I am glad to hear of the Lord’s special favour to you all as a family. When He declares His right to one of our ^[p. 130] children, it is one of the greatest favours He can confer on us, and I have for some time felt that if we had been more truthful in our returning them to the Lord and regarding them as His, as entirely as Hannah did with Samuel, there would be less delay to His declaring before all — in converting them — that they are His for all eternity.

... I enjoyed Mr. Darby’s speaking very much. He said we ought to have revelations of things in heaven now; we are told to set our affections on things above, how could we (he said) unless we know what they are?

I believe the Lord orders and cares for us, so that we may individually learn how necessary He is to us — even for quietness and rest. He gives us His peace, and this keeps us unruffled in our troubles.

Each day brings its own trials — lessons for faith. We are placed in some circumstance where God only can make a way for us. We are not only saved by faith, but if we are true, we live each day by faith.

Faith is seeing God and being sustained, though I see no providences. What a rest to the soul to feel I have God, though I have nothing else. Nature does not like this, but it is the deepest blessing. The wilderness is to teach us dependence. What a real and most blessed thing it is to depend on One — not only all-powerful, which He surely is, but who loves us perfectly. Oh, how much we lose even now! The Lord keep your heart cheerful in the fresh sense of His favour and thought for you.

How interesting about poor ————! What one faithful man or woman can do!