Faith is confidence that God will act according to what He has declared in His Holy Word. It is reliance on God’s Word through the assurance that He will act truthfully. It is based altogether on His character.
Welcome the trials of faith. It grows by the exercise trial gives. But if we do not welcome the discipline, we get little from it but suffering. To repine at affliction is to miss the most ennobling joy, to incur the most needless distress, and to lose faith besides.
Seek acquaintance with God as He is revealed in the Bible. Trust will be spontaneous if we really know Him. The notions of God which the world, and even many in the church, entertain are not true. God is the most lovable Being. Is not this the language of your inmost soul? If not, you are not acquainted with God as He is revealed in Scripture. Seek above all to know God, so that you shall from you inmost soul says, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.” (See also Ps 9:10). If one is really acquainted with God of the Bible, he is so satisfied that he will not complain of anything but will rejoice in all things.
--Medical Missionary Record 1959
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