Our Heavenly Father would have His children live by faith. There is no other way to please Him. It is the greatest compliment we can bestow upon Him. To stand before our God and say, “I believe You, no matter what”—is the highest respect and honor we can pay Him.
But this is not an isolated incident that happens only once in our life. It begins at our conversion and ends with its consummation. It’s “from faith to faith.” “The just shall live by faith.” It is a daily, moment by moment trust in the Almighty for both life and breath, and all that comes in between. We are so prone to live by, and trust in, circumstances, feelings, temperaments, and an unending list of other broken reeds. But God’s desire for us is a life of faith.
The way in which the Lord teaches us this vital lesson is to “shut [us] up unto the faith.” He puts us in impossible situations and shuts every door but one. After we are weary and worn from trying all the locked doors, in desperation we finally try the door of faith. When we do, we find that all the time it was the way out, just waiting for us to enter through it.
At the end of the natural is the supernatural, and, at the end of self is God.
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