The New Life

The New Life.
for faith just as good as if I had seen it.i Things
that are, but that I have not seen, and things that
are not yet, but shall come, are for faith entirely sure.
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' Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the
proving of things not seen." ^ Faith always asks
only for what God has said, and then relies on His
faithfulness and power to fulfil His word.
Let us now review again the words of Scripture.
Of Mary we read :
" Blessed is she that believed ; for
there shall be a fulfilment of the things which have
been spoken to her from the Lord." All things that
have been spoken in the word shall be fulfilled for
me : so I believe them.
Of Abraham it is reported that he was fully assured
that that which had been promised, God was also able
to fulfil. This is assurance of faith : to be assured
that God will do what He has promised.
Exactly thus is it in the word of Paul "
: I believe
God that it shall be even so as it hath been spoken
unto me." It stood fixed with him that God would
do what He had spoken.
Young disciples in Christ, the new, the eternal life
that is in you is a life of faith. And do you not see
how simple and how blessed that life of faith is ? I
go every day to the word and hear there what God
has said that He has done and will do.^ I take time
to lodge in my heart the word in which God says
that, and I hold it fast, entirely assured that what
1 Rom. viii. 38 ;
PhU. iii. 21 ; i Thess. v. 24 ; i Pet. i. 4, 5.
s Heb. xi. I.
« Gal. ii. 20, iii. 2, 5, v. 5, 6 ; Heb. x. 35 ; i Pet. i. 8.