Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label faith. Show all posts
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Missions quote
"True faith glories in the present tense, and does not trouble about the future. God’s promises are in the present tense and are quite secure enough to set our hearts at rest. Their full outworking is often in the future, but God’s word is as good as His bond, and we need have no anxiety." – James O. Fraser
Monday, November 06, 2006
Walking by faith
I found this today in a Spurgeon sermon that I was reading. It was such an encouragement to me that I had to share it with you.
"How shall I tell you what it is to walk by faith? I have sometimes had, before my mind's eye, as it were, a vision. I thought I saw a great staircase, made of light. There appeared to be nothing solid or earthly about it. I was called to ascend this staircase. Beneath my feet there seemed to be nothing. Each step I stood upon appeared to be the last, yet I went on, on, on, up, up, up, till I was at a dizzy height, and I thought that a voice said to me, "Look up." I could see no other step; but, as fast and I ascended one tier, I was told still to go on, and fresh steps of light revealed themselves beneath my ascending feet. I trod upon the clouds, and found them to be granite. It seemed to be thin air and mist; to mortal men, it was nothing. They laughed at me for trusting to it; but, each time my foot went down upon the stair, I found it to be like the eternal hills that are never to be moved. When, in my vision, I had climbed, and climbed, and climbed, till I seemed to look down upon the stars, I still climbed on, and I understood that this is walking by faith,--going ever upward, seeing Him Who is invisible, depending upon Him Whom no mortal eye can see, but Who is clearly recognized by our spiritual senses ... This is walking by faith, and it is a great mystery." (C.H. Spurgeon, The Suffering of Man and the Sovereignty of God, Oswego, IL: Fox River Press, 2001, p. 248-249)
Faith is a lot like that. There are many times when we have no idea how God's plan is going to work out because He has only showed us enough for today's step. Taking today's step is usually the hard part for me.
"How shall I tell you what it is to walk by faith? I have sometimes had, before my mind's eye, as it were, a vision. I thought I saw a great staircase, made of light. There appeared to be nothing solid or earthly about it. I was called to ascend this staircase. Beneath my feet there seemed to be nothing. Each step I stood upon appeared to be the last, yet I went on, on, on, up, up, up, till I was at a dizzy height, and I thought that a voice said to me, "Look up." I could see no other step; but, as fast and I ascended one tier, I was told still to go on, and fresh steps of light revealed themselves beneath my ascending feet. I trod upon the clouds, and found them to be granite. It seemed to be thin air and mist; to mortal men, it was nothing. They laughed at me for trusting to it; but, each time my foot went down upon the stair, I found it to be like the eternal hills that are never to be moved. When, in my vision, I had climbed, and climbed, and climbed, till I seemed to look down upon the stars, I still climbed on, and I understood that this is walking by faith,--going ever upward, seeing Him Who is invisible, depending upon Him Whom no mortal eye can see, but Who is clearly recognized by our spiritual senses ... This is walking by faith, and it is a great mystery." (C.H. Spurgeon, The Suffering of Man and the Sovereignty of God, Oswego, IL: Fox River Press, 2001, p. 248-249)
Faith is a lot like that. There are many times when we have no idea how God's plan is going to work out because He has only showed us enough for today's step. Taking today's step is usually the hard part for me.
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