THE WALK OF FAITH

THE WALK OF FAITH

I find that our great lack daily is not living by faith. We may do what is imposed on us, whether it be a pleasure or a duty, and yet it may not be simply faith. Every step should be in faith; and faith does not imply that I shall be gratified, but that the Lord will sustain me. And if we are true, and not deceived, there is not a day but that there is something ahead that we have to face, which we cannot find our way in, and which we are not able to bear up against, but in faith.

When I am in faith, my eye is outside this world, and fixed on Christ; and as it is, my steps here are those of a pilgrim and a stranger. The life of faith is the only true life, and the only wise one, because it is the only path in which Christ walked. We must be practised in it to understand it and persist in it. The ^[p. 302] more we walk by faith, the less can we, if conscientious, walk any other way. And then, wherever we are, we are always learning, deepening, in the knowledge of God. The one whose natural resources are exhausted, finds resources in Christ; and the one with abundance of natural resources finds how He surpasses them all, and that in Him only can he find help. This is the real learning of the wilderness.