the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
John Gossner's Treasury
If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established. Isaiah 7:9. He that believeth shall not make haste. Isaiah 28:16. Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. 1 Corinthians 16:13. And this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. 1 John 5:4.
He who does not watch and pray that his faith may be kept and daily increased and "established," will not long stand fast nor remain steadfast in the faith. His faith will become unbelief, imagination, or idle talk. He will not be established in Christ, nor will he be able to endure His stigma; he will make haste to flee from Christ to the world, at any rate in his heart. He who has a living faith, does "not make haste" to come to any one else. He stands fast, because Christ who dwells in him is stronger than he who dwells in the world, yea stronger than the whole world. Our endurance and our steadfastness, as well as our victory over the world, the flesh and the devil, are dependent upon the life of faith. If the faith live in us, Christ lives in us. If Christ live in us, we can hold our own against all enemies. We are then stronger than the world and we conquer, yea, more than conquer. Christ in us is the life of faith and the victory over all things.
We thank Thee then, O God of heaven.
That Thou to us this faith has given;
Preserve to us Thy Spirit’s grace
Till we shall see Thee face to face.
