[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0310":3},"MARCH 10\r\nThe just shall live by faith (Heb. 10:38).\r\nSeemings and feelings are often substituted for faith. Pleasurable   emotions and deep satisfying experiences are part of the Christian\r\nfife, but they are not al of it Trials, conflicts, battles and\r\ntestings he along the way, and are not to be counted as\r\nmisfortunes, but rather as part of our necessary discipline.\r\nIn all these varying experiences we are to reckon on Christ as\r\ndwelling in the heart regardless of our feelings if we are walking   obediently before Him. Here is where many get into trouble; they try to walk by feeling rather than faith.\r\nOne of the saints tells us that it seemed as though God had\r\nwithdrawn Himself from her. His mercy seemed dean gone. For six\r\nweeks her desolation lasted, and then the Heavenly Lover seemed to say:\r\n\"Catherine, thou hast looked for Me without in the world of sense, but all the while I have been within waiting for thee; meet Me in\r\nthe inner chamber of thy spirit for I am there. \"\r\nDistinguish between the fact of God's presence, and the emotion of the fact It is a happy thing when the soul seems desolate and\r\ndeserted, if our faith can say, \"I see Thee not I feel Thee not but\r\n\r\nThou art certainly and graciously here, where I am as I am.\" Say it    again and again: \"Thou are here: though the bush does not seem to bum with fire, it does bum. I win take the shoes from off my feet\r\nfor the place on which I stand is holy ground.\"\r\n--London Christian.\r\nBelieve God's word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your Rock is Christ, and it is not the   Rock which ebbs and flows, but your sea. --Samuel Rutherford.\r\nKeep your eye steadily fixed on the infinite grandeur of Christ\r\nfinished work and righteousness. Look to Jesus and believe, look to Jesus and five! Nay, more; as you look to him, hoist your sails and\r\nbuffet manfully the sea of life. Do not remain in the haven of distrust, or sleeping on your shadows in inactive repose, or\r\nsuffering your frames and feelings to pitch and toss on one another like vessels idly moored in a harbor. The religious fife is not a\r\nbrooding over emotions, grazing the keel of faith in the shallows,\r\nof dragging the anchor of hope through the oozy tide mud as if\r\nafraid of encountering the healthy breeze. Away! With your canvas spread to the gale, trusting in Him, who rules the raging of the\r\nwaters. The safety of the tinted bird is to be on the wing. If its haunt be near the ground-if it fly low-it exposes itself to the\r\nfowler's net or snare. If we remain grovelling on the low ground of feeling and emotion, we shall find ourselves entangled in a\r\nthousand meshes of doubt and despondency, temptation and unbelief. \"But surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of THAT WHICH\r\nHATH A WING\" (marginal reading Prov. 1:17). Hope thou in God.--J.\r\nR. Macduff.\r\nWhen I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence. --Matthew Henry.",1783499792050]