Had to share this after I read it...very convicting of my frequent lack of faith in an all-powerful and ever-gracious God! As the father in Mark 9 exclaimed, "I believe - help me in my unbelief!"
Difficulties Concerning Faith - by Hannah Whitall Smith
`If you can'?" said Jesus. "Everything is possible for him who believes." Immediately the boy's father exclaimed, "I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!" Mark 9:23-24
I wish you would try to imagine yourself acting in your human relations as you do in your spiritual relations. Suppose you should begin tomorrow with the notion in your head that you could not trust anybody because you had no faith. When you sat down to breakfast, you would say, “I cannot eat anything on this table, for I have not faith, and I cannot believe the cook has not put poison in the coffee, or that the butcher has not sent home diseased or unhealthy meat”; so you would go away starving. When you went out to your daily avocations, you would say, “I cannot ride in the railway train, for I have no faith, and therefore I cannot trust the engineer, nor the conductor, nor the builders of the carriages, nor the managers of the road.”
Just picture such a day as this, and see how disastrous it would be to yourself, and what utter folly it would appear to anyone who should watch you through the whole of it. Realize how your friends would be insulted, and how your servants would refuse to serve you another day. And then ask yourself the question, “If this want of faith in your fellowman would be so dreadful, and such utter folly, what must it be when you tell God that you have no power to trust Him, nor to believe His Word; that it is a great trail, but you cannot help it, ‘for you have no faith’?”
From the Devotional: A Gentle Spirit
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