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Streams in the Desert
“Then believed they his words; they sang his praise. They
soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel; but lusted exceedingly
in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. And he gave them their
request; but sent leanness into their soul” (Psalms 106:12-15).
We read of Moses, that "he endured, as seeing him
who is invisible."
Exactly
the opposite was true of the children of Israel in this record.
They
endured only when the circumstances were favorable; they were largely governed
by the things that appealed to their senses, in place of resting in the
invisible and eternal God.
In
the present day there are those who live intermittent Christian lives because
they have become occupied with the outward, and center in circumstances, in
place of centering in God.
God
wants us more and more to see Him in everything, and to call nothing small if
it bears us His message.
Here we read of the children of Israel, "Then they
believed his words."
They
did not believe till after they saw -- when they saw Him work, then they
believed.
They
really doubted God when they came to the Red Sea; but when God opened the way
and led them across and they saw Pharaoh and his host drowned -- " then
they believed."
They
led an up and down life because of this kind of faith; it was a faith that depended upon circumstances. This is
not the kind of faith God wants us to have.
The
world says "seeing is believing," but God wants us to believe
in order to see.
The Psalmist said, "I had fainted, unless I had
believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living."
Do
you believe God only when the circumstances are favorable, or do you believe no
matter what the circumstances may be? -- C.
H. P.
Faith
is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what
we believe.
-- St. Augustine
-- St. Augustine
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