In Green Pastures
Daily Readings for Every Day in the Year
December 5
How Unbelief Robs Us
Christ never compels any one to take the gifts and blessings which he
has to bestow. We complain of our sparse blessedness. We wonder why God does
not manifest himself to us as he has done to others. We wonder we cannot have
such power in prayer as some Christians have — why so little seems to come
from our work for Christ. It is not from any lack of power in Christ, for his
strength never fails nor wastes; it is because we will not receive what he
brings. Unbelief shuts up Christ's hand that it cannot give to us the things of
his grace, or cannot work deliverances for us. Thus our unbelief keeps us
impoverished. It hides God’s face, and robs us of the deep, rich joys
which faith would bring. Shall we not pray for simple faith, that we may
receive large things?
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