Belief

What would your life look like if you took God at His word? What would happen if you lived in constant anticipation of the promises He has made?

Wouldn't you know that your every need is already accounted for? Wouldn't you believe that as God gives food to the sparrow and clothes the grass of the field, He will provide for you? Wouldn't you lose any cause to worry, since He has promised that all things work together for good for those that love Him, who are called according to His purpose? Wouldn't your life be full of contentment if you cast all your cares on the very provider of life, knowing that before the foundation of the earth He knew you? Wouldn't you triumph over sin, since Christ took your sin on Himself? Wouldn't you confidently approach the throne of God, assured that because of Christ's atonement, you a believer are righteous before God? Wouldn't He, by fulfillment of His many promises, become so precious to you that nothing else would be of any worth, if that you get Christ?

If you're looking for meaning; if you're searching for significance; if you're desperate for identity: find it in Christ. When He says that He came that you may have life, and have it abundantly, take up your cross and take Him at His word.

Every man who walks with God, and finds Him a present Help in every time of need; who puts His promises to the practical proof and verifies them in actual experience; every believer who with the key of faith unlocks God's mysteries, and with the key of prayer unlocks God's treasures, thus furnishes to the race a demonstration and an illustration of the fact that 'He is, and is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.'

A.T. Pierson, George Müller of Bristol