Streams in the Desert April 24 Daily Devotional

Faith is ... the evidence of things not seen (Heb. 11:1).
True faith drops its letter in the post office box, and lets it go.
Distrust holds on to a comer of it, and wonders that the answer
never comes. I have some letters in my desk that have been written for weeks, but there was some slight uncertainty about the address or the contents, so they are yet unmailed. They have not done
either me or anybody else any good yet They will never accomplish anything until I let them go out of my hands and trust them to the
postman and the mail.
This the way with true faith. It hands its case over to God, and
then He works. That is a fine verse in the Thirty-seventh Psalm:
"Commit thy way unto the Lord, trust also in Him, and He worketh."
But He never worketh till we commit Faith is a receiving or still better, a taking of God's proffered gifts. We may believe, and
come, and commit and rest; but we will not fully realize a our
blessings until we begin to receive and come into the attitude of abiding and taking.
--Days of Heaven upon Earth.
Dr. Payson, when a young man, wrote as follows, to an aged mother, burdened with intense anxiety on account of the condition of her
son: "You give yourself too much trouble about him. After you have
prayed for him, as you have done, and committed him to God, should you not cease to feel anxious respecting him? The command, 'Be
careful for nothing,' is unlimited; and so is the expression,
'Casting all your care on him.' If we cast our burdens upon
another, can they continue to press upon us? If we bring them away with us from the Throne of Grace, it is evident we do not leave
them there. With respect to myself, I have made this one test of my

prayers: if after committing anything to God, I can, like Hannah,
come away and have my mind no more sad, my heart no more pained or anxious, I look upon it as one proof that I have prayed in faith;
but if I bring away my burden, I conclude that faith was not in exercise."