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What Faith Is - 2

Faith concerns itself with a person.
We are saved and blessed by the faith that passes through the facts of our Savior's life to the Savior Himself.

We rest
• not on the atonement,  but on Him who made it;
• not on the death,  but on Him who died;
• not on the resurrection,  but on Him who rose, ascended, and ever lives to make intercession;
• not in statements about Him,  but in Him of whom they are made.

Many a time the question is asked by the enquirer, "Have I the right kind of faith?"
It is a needful question, because there is a dead and spurious faith which will fail us in the supreme crisis, just as the badly-tinned meats failed the Arctic exploration party, who on returning to their cairn of stores, found their food spoiled.
Those men starved.

There is one simple reply,
"All faith that turns towards Jesus is the right faith."

• It may bring no conscious rapture.
• It may be as weak as the woman's touch on His garment's hem.
• It may be small and insignificant as a grain of mustard seed.
• It may be despairful as Peter's cry, "Lord, save me, or I perish!"

But if its deepest yearning be Christ-Christ-Christ, it is the tiny thread which will bring the lost soul through subterranean passages, in which that soul might have been well-nigh overwhelmed, into the light of Christ's glorious life.

Father,
Teach me to have faith which rests only and fully in the Lord Jesus Christ,
my Saviour and Master,
Amen.