“What time I am afraid, I will trust in Thee” (Ps. lvi. 3).
We shall never forget a remark Mr. George Mueller once made in answer to a
gentleman who asked him the best way to have strong faith. “The only way,”
replied the patriarch of faith, “to learn strong faith is to endure great
trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm amid severe testings.”
This is very true. The time to trust is when all else fails. Dear one, if
you scarcely realize the value of your present opportunity, if you are
passing through great afflictions, you are in the very soul of the
strongest faith, and if you will only let go, He will teach you in these
hours the mightiest hold upon this throne which you can ever know. “Be not
afraid, only believe”; and if you are afraid, just look up and say, “What
time I am afraid, I will trust in Thee,” and you will yet thank God for
the school of sorrow which was to you the school of faith.
O brother, give heed to the warning,
And obey His voice to-day.
The Spirit to thee is calling,
O do not grieve Him away.