[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0306":3},"MARCH 6\nWe trusted (Luke 24:21).\r\nI have always felt so sorry that in that walk to Emmaus the I\r\ndisciples had not said to Jesus, \"We still trust\"; Instead of \"We trusted.\" That is so sad-something that is all over.\r\nIf they had only said, \"Everything is against our hope; it looks as\r\nif our trust was vain, but we do not give up; we believe we shall\r\nsee Him again.\" But no they walked by His side declaring their lost faith, and He had to say to them \"O fools, and slow of heart to\r\nbelieve!\"\r\nAre we not in the same danger of having these words said to us? We can afford to lose anything and everything if we do not lose our\r\nfaith in the God of truth and love.\r\nLet us never put our faith, as these disciples did, in a past\r\ntense-\"We trusted.\"But let us ever say,\"I am trusting.\" Crumbs. The soft, sweet summer was warm and glowing,\r\nBright were the blossoms on every bough:\r\nI trusted Him when the roses were blooming; I trust Him now....\r\nSmall were my faith should it weakly falter Now that the roses have ceased to blow;\r\nFrail were the trust that now should alter,\r\nDoubting His love when storm clouds grow. --The Song of a Bird in a Winter Storm.",1783499792050]