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Hope you don’t mind that I share something from my
devotional – Oswald’s
May this add to the treasure box….
Audrey
The Patience of Faith
May 8th – Oswald
Chamber
“Because thou has kept the word of My patience.” – Rev. 3:10
Patience is more than
endurance. A saint’s life is
in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God Is aiming at something the
saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again
the saint says – “I cannot stand any more.” God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His
purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God’s hands. For what have you need of
patience just now? Maintain
your relationship to Jest Christ by the patience of faith.
“Though He slays me, yet will I wait for Him.”
Faith is not a pathetic
sentiment, but robust vigorous confidence built on the fact that God is
holy love. You cannot see
Him just now, you cannot understand what He is doing, but you know
HI. Shipwreck occurs where
there is not that mental poise which comes from being established on the
eternal truth that God is holy love. Faith is the heroic effort of your life, you fling
yourself in reckless confidence on God.
God has ventured all in
Jesus Christ to save us, now He wants us to venture our all in abandoned
confidence in Him. There are
spots where that faith has not worked in us as yet, places untouched by
the life of God. There were
none of those spots in Jesus Christ’s life, and there are to be none in
ours.
“This is life eternal, that they might know Thee.”
The real meaning of eternal
life is a life that can face anything it has to face without
wavering. If we take this
view, life becomes one great romance, a glorious opportunity for seeing
marvelous things all the time.
God is disciplining us to get us into this central place of power.
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