SermonIndex Audio Sermons
SermonIndex - Promoting Revival to this Generation
Give To SermonIndex
SermonIndex.net : Christian Books : SEPTEMBER The Seventh EXPERIMENT AND EXPERIENCE

My Daily Meditation For The Circling Year by John Henry Jowett

SEPTEMBER The Seventh EXPERIMENT AND EXPERIENCE

HEBREWS xi.1-6.

I like the marginal rendering of the introductory sentence of this great chapter. |Faith is the giving substance to things hoped for.| Faith converts cloudy castles into substantial homes. Faith substantiates the unseen. Faith sucks the energy out of splendid ideals, and incorporates it in present and immediate life. Faith unfolds the eternal in the moment, the infinite in the trifle, the divine in the commonplace. Faith incorporates God and man. Yes, faith gives substance to |things hoped for,| it brings them out of the air, and gives them reality and movement in the hard and common ways of earth and time.

And faith is also |the test of things not seen.| By a test faith gains a conquest. By an experiment faith acquires an experience. By a great speculation faith makes a great discovery. |Try me now herewith, and prove Me!| It is an invitation to humble and sincere assumption. Try if it works! Make a hallowed experiment with the powers of grace.

Lord, incline me to make the gracious test! Let me stake my all upon the venture! Let me dare all in order that I may gain all! Let me sow bountifully, and so reap a bountiful harvest.

<<  Contents  >>





©2002-2024 SermonIndex.net
Promoting Revival to this Generation.
Privacy Policy