[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0715":3},"JULY 15\r\n\r\nThis is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith (I John 5:4).\r\nIt is easy to love Him when the blue is in the sky.\r\nWhen the summer winds are blowing, and we smell the roses nigh; There is little effort needed to obey His precious will\r\nWhen it leads through flower-decked valley, or over sun-kissed hill.\r\nIt is when the rain is falling, or the mist hangs in the air,\r\nWhen the road is dark and rugged, and the wind no longer fair, When the rosy dawn has settled in a shadowland of gray,\r\nThat we find it hard to trust Him, and are slower to obey.\r\nIt is easy to trust Him when the singing birds have come,\r\nAnd their canticles are echoed in our heart and in our home; But 'tis when we miss the music, and the days are dull\r\nand drear,\r\nThat we need a faith triumphant over every doubt and fear.\r\nAnd our blessed Lord will give it; what we lack He will supply; Let us ask in faith believing-on His promises rely;\r\nHe will ever be our Leader, whether smooth or rough the way, And will prove Himself sufficient for the needs of every day.\r\nTo trust in spite of the look of being forsaken; to keep crying out\r\ninto the vast whence comes no returning voice, and where seems no hearing; to see the machinery of the world pauselessly grinding on\r\nas if self-moved, caring for no life, nor shifting a hair-breadth\r\nfor all entreaty, and yet believe that God is awake and utterly    loving; to desire nothing but what comes meant for us from His hand; to wait patiently, ready to die of hunger, fearing only lest  faith should fail-such is the victory that overcometh the world,   such is faith indeed. --George MacDonald.",1783499793209]