[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0424":3},"APRIL 24\r\nFaith is ... the evidence of things not seen (Heb. 11:1).\r\nTrue faith drops its letter in the post office box, and lets it go.\r\nDistrust holds on to a comer of it, and wonders that the answer\r\nnever 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\r\neither 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\r\npostman and the mail.\r\nThis the way with true faith. It hands its case over to God, and\r\nthen He works. That is a fine verse in the Thirty-seventh Psalm:\r\n\"Commit thy way unto the Lord, trust also in Him, and He worketh.\"\r\nBut He never worketh till we commit Faith is a receiving or still better, a taking of God's proffered gifts. We may believe, and\r\ncome, and commit and rest; but we will not fully realize a our\r\nblessings until we begin to receive and come into the attitude of abiding and taking.\r\n--Days of Heaven upon Earth.\r\nDr. Payson, when a young man, wrote as follows, to an aged mother, burdened with intense anxiety on account of the condition of her\r\nson: \"You give yourself too much trouble about him. After you have\r\nprayed for him, as you have done, and committed him to God, should you not cease to feel anxious respecting him? The command, 'Be\r\ncareful for nothing,' is unlimited; and so is the expression,\r\n'Casting all your care on him.' If we cast our burdens upon\r\nanother, 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\r\nthem there. With respect to myself, I have made this one test of my\r\n\r\nprayers: if after committing anything to God, I can, like Hannah,\r\ncome 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;\r\nbut if I bring away my burden, I conclude that faith was not in exercise.\"",1783499792950]