Thoughts of Grace

This squirrel calls,
the Farmer offers a peanut,
the squirrel takes from the Farmer’s fingers,
then scampers up the tree to eat.

Good Morning

Let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece. Judges 6:39

There are degrees to faith. At one stage of Christian experience we cannot believe unless we have some sign or some great manifestation of feeling. We feel our fleece, like Gideon, and if it is wet we are willing to trust God. this may be true faith, but it is imperfect. It always looks for feeling or some token besides the Word of God.

It marks quite an advance in faith when we trust God without feelings. It is blessed to believe without having any emotion.

There is a third stage of faith which even transcends that of Gideon and his fleece.
The first phase of faith believes when there are favorable emotion,
the second believes when there is the absence of feeling,
but this third form of faith believes God and His Word when circumstances, emotions, appearances, people, and human reason all urge to the contrary.
Paul exercised this faith in Acts 27:20, 25, “and when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and so small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.” Not withstanding all this Paul said,k “Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer; for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.”

May God give us faith to fully trust His Word through every else witness the other way. –C.H.P.

Trust God for your day . . .Today
With my prayers, desiring yours, Leslie