Believers have comfort to live upon that the world knows nothing about. We have the comfort of God's promises. And what do you think is best, to live upon earthly pleasures, or upon the promises of God? The earthly are yes and no, but the promises are yes and amen. The earthly are deceitful, but the promises are sure and faithful. The earthly feed but sense, but the promises fill the soul. He that lives upon the promises, lives by faith, and the life of faith is the only safe and true life in the world. As the weak ivy secures itself by twisting about the great oak, so are we secure by cleaving to the great God. The life of sense if full of disappointments like a deceitful brook. To live on the promises of God is the only quiet life.
Faith fixes the soul upon God and is safe. We are free from the burdens of sin and trouble. Faith rests upon Christ's righteousness, and takes off the burden of care by resting upon God's providence. Ah, my beloved, there is no comfort to be compared to the life of faith. The life of faith proceeds from God and His never changing promises. Our comforts may change, but Christ never changes.
~Matthew Mead,
A Name in Heaven
Isn't is a comfort to know GOD
ReplyDeletenever changes. We can change as
fast as the wind, but we can count
on GOD to stay the same. What a
comfort.
HUGS,
memaw