Trust

July 16, 2013

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

– Corrie ten Boom –

April 30, 2013

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

– Oswald Chambers –

April 24, 2013

Actually, faith is most reasonable. What is more reasonable than that a creature should trust his Creator? Is it insane to believe in One Who can neither lie nor fail nor err? To trust God is the most sensible, sane, rational thing that a man can do. It is no leap in the dark. Faith demands the surest evidence and finds it in God’s unfailing Word. No one has ever trusted Him in vain; no one ever will. Faith in the Lord involves no risk whatever.

– William MacDonald –

April 21, 2013

Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.

– O. Hallesby –
from Prayer

April 12, 2013

God’s plan with most of us appears to be a design to make us flexible, twisting us this way and that, now giving, now taking; but always at work for and in us.

– Elizabeth Prentiss –
from More Love to Thee

April 9, 2013

It is true that all God requires of us we lack; but it is also true that all we need He supplies.

– Evan Hopkins –

April 7, 2013

All of my need He freely supplieth,
Day after day His goodness I prove;
Mercies unfailing, new every morning,
Tell me of God’s unchanging love.

– Thomas Chisholm –
from the hymn He Supplieth All of My Need

April 6, 2013

Unclaimed promises are like uncashed checks; they will keep us from bankruptcy, but not from want.

– Frances Ridley Havergal –
from Kept for the Master’s Use (1879)

March 31, 2013

God’s manner is not to bring comfortable texts of Scripture to give men assurance of his love, and that they shall be happy, before they have had a faith of dependence.

– Jonathan Edwards –
from A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections