FAITH AND DEPENDENCE

FAITH AND DEPENDENCE

I trust there will be a more decided waiting on the Lord with you, now that the chief support is being removed. It is often the Lord’s way, as with children; the nurse is removed when the children are old enough to walk. The testing brings the real measure of the faith into view, and this works endurance. It is a great thing to be assured that I am dependent on God, and that I know the good of the dependence. There must be exercises and difficulties, or the blessedness of dependence would not be known....

^[p. 140] How little we realise the magnitude of the fact that God is our Father! If a man had an emperor for his father he would not go to a peasant to ask for help. We cannot naturally bear the delay and suspense to which we are subjected in turning to God. But the delay is simply to test our faith. He that believeth shall not make haste. I find many run to God for help, and some have faith in God, who do not understand what it is to have faith in Christ. Faith in God is dependence on Him for help and blessing. Faith in Christ is the practical abandonment of man’s ways and hopes for Christ. Blessed work — to press on souls to have faith in Christ. How blessed that it is in His place we find repose. May you have much of this repose.

It is a good sign on all sides when children prefer their home to any other place. How blessed if this were true of each of us with respect to our home in the Father’s house. The reason of our not doing so is that we do not sufficiently know the joys of it.