[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0415":3},"APRIL 15\r\nI trust in thy word (Psalm 119:42).\r\nJust in proportion in which we believe that God will do just what He has said, is our faith strong or weak. Faith has nothing to\r\ndo with feelings, or with impressions, with improbabilities, or\r\nwith outward appearances. If we desire to couple them with faith, then we are no longer resting on the Word of God because faith   needs nothing of the kind. Faith rests on the naked Word of God  When we take Him at His Word the heart is at peace.\r\nGod delights to exercise faith, first for blessing In our own\r\nsouls, then for blessing in the Church at large, and also for those without. But this exercise we shrink from instead of welcoming,\r\nWhen trials\r\ncome, we should say: \"My Heavenly Father puts this cup of trial Into my hands, that I may have something sweet afterwards.\"\r\nTrials are the food of faith. Oh, let us leave ourselves in the\r\nhands of our Heavenly Father! It is the joy of His heart to do good to all His children.\r\nBut trials and difficulties are not the only means by which faith\r\nis exercised and thereby increased. There is the reading of the\r\nScriptures, that we may by them acquaint ourselves with God as He has revealed Himself in His Word.\r\nAre you able to say, from the acquaintance you have made with God, that He is a lovely Being.? If not let me affectionately entreat\r\nyou to ask God to bring you to this, that you may admire His\r\ngentleness and kindness, that you may be able to say how good He is, and what a delight it is to the heart of God to do good to His\r\nchildren.\r\nNow the nearer we come to this In our inmost souls, the more ready\r\nwe are to leave ourselves in His hands, satisfied with all His dealings with us. And when trial comes, we shall say:\r\n\"I will wait and see what good God will do to me by it assured He will do it\" Thus we shall bear an honorable testimony before the   world, and thus we shall strengthen the hands of others.\r\n--George Mueller.",1783499792051]