Heb 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
Faith is going to determine which of two things is
going to characterize us.
This is the real point. It is either going to
be that we are living under a terrible paralysis, as altogether
petrified through confusion, perplexity, inability to understand, being
unable to disentangle, to sort things out, to see straight and see
clearly, to know what is meant by happenings.
That means utter
paralysis, simply standing with our hands on our hips, helpless and
hopeless.
That is the effect of the absence of a positive faith.
The
only way of Life and deliverance from such a paralysis is a deliberate
faith in God which causes us to take the attitude that we are going on
with God.
Understanding or not understanding, explaining or not
explaining, having light or having no light; we are going right on with
God on the basis of what God has done in us, made real in us, of what
God Himself is to us by what He has effected in us. We are going on!
We, beloved, shall come there and may come there more
than once in the course of our life; we shall come to the place where
we realize we are going right out into outer darkness and despair and
paralysis, to be ruled completely out of any effectiveness,
fruitfulness, or value whatever, unless we pull ourselves together and
say to ourselves, "The whole thing is an inexplicable, bewildering
confusion, a tangle from our standpoint or the standpoint of man;
But
God is, God is faithful. That is what He Himself says He is."
Thus
without questioning God we go on believing God.
We have even to believe
God to the point of putting over on to Him the responsibility for
failures, for mistakes, in so far as we have really and honestly put our
lives at His disposal and have become utter for God
And are free from
personal interests and worldly interests and are here only for God.
We
have to make over to the Lord's account things which may have been
mistakes or failures, and trust Him with these and go on.
~T. Austin Sparks~
~T. Austin Sparks~
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