BIBLE-FAITH
If you
believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not
the gospel you believe, but yourself.
In order to
trust God, we must always view our adverse circumstances through the eyes of
faith, not of sense. And just as the faith of salvation comes through hearing
the message of the gospel (Romans 10:17), so the faith to trust God in
adversity comes through the Word of God alone. It is only in the Scriptures
that we find an adequate view of God’s relationship to and involvement in our
painful circumstances. It is only from the Scriptures, applied to our hearts by
the Holy Spirit, that we receive the grace to trust God in adversity.
Trusting God, 1988, p. 18. Used by permission of NavPress
– www.navpress.com. All rights
reserved.
Faith does
not ask for any other evidence than for the written Word of God.
One of these
days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it.
Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.
Leonard Ravenhill