[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0724":3},"JULY 24\r\nThen believed they his words; they sang his praise. They soon forgot his works; they waited not for his counsel, but lusted\r\nexceedingly In the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert. And\r\nhe gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul (Psalm 106:12-15).\r\nWe read of Moses, that \"he endured, as seeing him who is\r\ninvisible.\" Exactly the opposite was true of the children of Israel\r\nin this record. They endured only when the circumstances were\r\nfavorable; they were largely governed by the things that appealed to their senses, in place of resting in the invisible and eternal\r\nGod.\r\nIn the present day there are those who five intermittent Christian\r\nfives because they have become occupied with the outward, and\r\ncenter in circumstances, in place of centering in God. God wants us more and more to see Him in everything, and to call nothing small    if it bears us His message.\r\nHere we read of the children of Israel, \"Then they believed his\r\nwords.\" They did not believe till after they saw-when they saw Him\r\nwork, then they believed. They really doubted God when they came to the Red Sea; but when God opened the way and led them across and they saw Pharaoh and his host drowned- \"then they believed.\"\r\nThey led an up and down fife because of this kind of faith; it was  a faith that depended upon circumstances. This is not the kind of faith God wants us to have.\r\nThe world says \"seeing is believing,\" but God wants us to believe in order to see. The Psalmist said, \"I had fainted, unless I had\r\nbelieved to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.\r\nDo you believe God only when the circumstances are favorable, or do\r\n\r\nyou\r\nbelieve no matter what the circumstances may be? --C H. P.\r\nFaith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe. --St. Augustine.",1783499793234]