Trouble? Which way will you go?

"And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way." John 4:50

The narrative of the nobleman and his sick son beautifully illustrates the beginning of faith and its rapid progress in the human soul. It is one thing to hear about the conversation of someone else but it is another to experience this great salvation personally, and to appropriate it by saving faith. This same living Christ is ever ready to help in time of great need, as He helped this nobleman.

Trouble led this man to Jesus, had it not been for this severe trail he might have lived on, never knowing the Saviour. Listen! trouble will do one of two things for you. It will either drive you to the place of refuge, shelter, and safety or it will cause your heart to become hard and rebellious. Pharaoh was made bitter, stiff-necked and hard.

When the nobleman heard that Jesus was passing that way he went to Him. That was the evidence that there was within his heart a spark of faith. Faith without works is dead. He "went and besought Him." And he continued to beseech until the assurance of the answer was given him. That is your privilege and mine, also. - Charles E. Fuller

Just one touch as He moves along,
Push'd and press'd by the jostling throng;
Just one touch and the weak was strong,
Cured by the Healer divine.

Just one touch and He makes me whole,
Speaks sweet peace to my sin-sick soul;
At His feet all my burdens roll, -
Cured by the Healer divine.

Just one touch! and He turns to me,
O the love in His eyes I see!
I am His for He hears my plea,
Cured by the Healer divine.

Birdie Bell

Taken from "Manna in the Morning"