Faith

"Will give you . . . as he hath promised." Exodus 12:25

God is to be trusted for what He is, and not for what He is not. We may confidently expect Him to act according to His nature, but never contrary to it. To dream that God will do this and that because we wish that He would is not faith, but fanaticism. Faith can only stand upon trust. We may be sure that God will so act as to honor His own justice, mercy, wisdom, power - in a word, so as to be Himself. Beyond all doubt. He will fulfill His promises; and when faith grasps a promise she is on sure ground. To believe that God will give us what He has never promised to give is mere dreaming. Faith without a promise revealed or implied is folly. Yea, though our trust should cry itself hoarse in prayer, it should be none the less a vain dotard if is had no word o God to warrant it. Happily, the promises and unveilings of Scripture are ample for every real emergency; but when unrestrained credence catches at every whim of is own crazy imagination and thinks to see it realized, the disappointment is not to be wondered at.

It is ours to believe the sure things of God's revelation, but we are not to waste a grain of precious reliance upon anything outside of that circle. -- Rev. C. H. Spurgeon

"Faith does not mean that we are tying to believe something that is not so; it just means that we are taking God at His Word."

Faith is a thread
Slender and frail,
Easy to tear;

Yet it can life
The weight of a soul
Up form despair.

- Matthew Biller

By Mrs. Charles E. Cowman taken from "Springs in the Valley"