The Secret of Adoration By Andrew Murray

SEVENTH DAY.
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".f ~.sus said u~to them: 'Have faith in
God. -MARK xi. 22.
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S the eye is the organ by which we see
the light and rejoice in it, so faith is
the power by which we see the light of God
and walk in it.
Man was made for God, in His likeness ;
his whole being formed after the Divine
pattern. Just think of his wonderful
power of thinking out all the thoughts of
God hidden in nature. Think of the heart,
with its unlimited powers of self-sacrifice
and love. Man was made for God, to
seek Him, to find Him, to grow up into
His likeness and show forth His glory ; in
the fullest sense to be His dwelling. And
faith is the eye which, turning away from
the world and self, looks up to God and in
His light sees light. To faith God reveals
Himself.
How often we toil and try to waken
thoughts and feelings concerning God,
which are but a faint shadow, and we
forget ''. to gaze on the Incomparable
Original."
Could we but realise it, in the depth of
our soul God reveals Himself.
Without faith it is impossible to please
God, or to know Him. In our quiet time
we have to pray to our Father which is in
secret. There "He hides us in the secret