delight in the blessed prospect, and meanwhile it sustains us on the
road. Reader, I long that you may be a firm believer in the Lord alone.
I want you to get wholly upon the rock, and not keep a foot on the
sand. In this mortal life _trust God for all things_; and trust him
alone. This is the way to live. I know it by experience. God's bare arm
is quite enough to lean upon. I will give you a bit of the experience
of an old labouring man I once knew. He feared God above many, and was
very deeply taught of the Spirit. My picture will show you what kind
of a man he was--great at hedging and ditching; but greater at simple
trust. Here is how he described faith:--"It was a bitter winter, and I
had no work, and no bread in the house. The children were crying. The
snow was deep, and my way was dark. My old master told me I might have
a bit of wood when I wanted it; so I thought a bit of fire would warm
the poor children, and I went out with my chopper to get some fuel. I
was standing near a deep ditch full of snow, which had drifted into it
many feet deep--in fact, I did not know how deep. While aiming a blow
at a bit of wood my bill-hook slipped out of my hand, and went right
down into the snow, where I could not hope to find it. Standing there
with no food, no fire, and the chopper gone, something seemed to say to
me, 'Will Richardson, can you trust God now?' and my very soul said,
'That I can.'" This is true faith--the faith which trusts the Lord when
the bill-hook is gone: the faith which believes God when all outward
appearances give him the lie; the faith which is happy with God alone
when all friends turn their backs upon you. Dear reader, may you and
I have this precious faith, this real faith, this God-honouring faith!
The Lord's truth deserves it; his love claims it, his faithfulness
constrains it. Happy is he who has it! He is the man whom the Lord
loves, and the world shall be made to know it before all is finished.
[Illustration: OLD WILL, THE LABOURER.]
After all, the very best faith is an everyday faith: the faith which
deals with bread and water, coats and stockings, children and cattle,
house-rent and weather. The super-fine confectionery religion which
is only available on Sundays, and in drawing-room meetings and Bible
readings, will never take a soul to heaven till life becomes one long
Conference, and there are seven Sabbaths in a week. Faith is doing her
very best when for many years she plods on, month by month, trusting
the Lord about the sick husband, the failing daughter, the declining
business, the unconverted friend, and such-like things.
Faith also helps us to use the world as not abusing it. It is good at
hard work, and at daily duty. It is not an angelic thing for skies and
stars, but a human grace, at home in kitchens and workshops. It is
a sort of maid-of-all-work, and is at home at every kind of labour,
and in every rank of life. It is a grace for every day, all the year
round. Holy confidence in God is never out of work. Faith's ware is so
valued at the heavenly court that she always has one fine piece of work
or another on the wheel or in the furnace. Men dream that heroes are
only to be made on special occasions, once or twice in a century; but
in truth the finest heroes are home-spun, and are more often hidden in
obscurity than platformed by public observation. Trust in the living
God is the bullion out of which heroism is coined. Perseverance in
well-doing is one of the fields in which faith grows not flowers, but
the wheat of her harvest. Plodding on in hard work, bringing up a
family on a few shillings a week, bearing constant pain with patience,
and so forth--these are the feats of valour through which God is
glorified by the rank and file of his believing people.
Reader, you and I will be of one mind in this: we will not pine to be
great, but we will be eager to be good. For this we will rely upon
the Lord our God, whose we are, and whom we serve. We will ask to be
made holy throughout every day of the week. We will pray to our God as
much about our daily business as about our soul's salvation. We will
trust him concerning our farm, and our turnips and our cows as well as
concerning our spiritual privileges and our hope of heaven. The Lord
Jehovah is our household God; Jesus is our brother born for adversity;
and the Holy Spirit is our Comforter in every hour of trial. We have
not an unapproachable God: he hears, he pities, he helps. Let us trust
him without a break, without a doubt, without a hesitation. The life
of faith is life within God's wicket-gate. If we have hitherto stood
trembling outside in the wide world of unbelief, may the Holy Spirit
enable us now to take the great decisive step, and say, once for all,
"Lord, I believe: help thou mine unbelief!"
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