{"id":3722,"date":"2008-11-12T23:27:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T04:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/os-chambers\/discernment-of-faith"},"modified":"2008-12-09T23:29:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T04:29:45","slug":"discernment-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2008\/11\/12\/discernment-of-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"DISCERNMENT OF FAITH"},"content":{"rendered":"
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     Faith as a grain of mustard seed… <\/p>\n

     — Matthew 17:20<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We have the idea that God rewards us for our faith, it may he so in
the initial stages; but we do not earn anything by faith, faith
brings us into right relationship with God and gives God His
opportunity. God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your
experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with
Himself. God wants you to understand that it is a life of faith, not
a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings.<\/strong><\/u> Your earlier life
of faith was narrow and intense, settled around a little sun-spot of
experience that had as much of sense as of faith in it, full of light
and sweetness; then God withdrew His conscious blessings in order to
teach you to walk by faith. You are worth far more to Him now than
you were in your days of conscious delight and thrilling testimony. <\/p>\n

Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith
is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God’s
character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual
working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation.<\/strong><\/u> Never
confound the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life,
much that we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of
being alive. Faith in the Bible is faith in God against everything
that contradicts Him – I will remain true to God’s character whatever
He may do.<\/strong><\/u> “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him” – this is the
most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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