How shall we connect faith in the Savior with faith in the Father? Probably thus: we need some faith in God in order to believe in Jesus whom he sent, and then, trusting in Christ, we attain to a fuller, stronger faith in the Father. We believe in our imperfect earthly friends how much more reason have we to believe in our perfect God? Especially does this appear when we consider, not only what God is, but what he has done to justify and to elicit our faith.Ģ. If there be a God, surely we can need no argument, no persuasion, to induce us to believe in him. To trust is good, if we trust one deserving of confidence. To believe is good, if we believe what is worthy of credit. But it is not infrequently forgotten that the virtue of faith depends upon its object. Now, it is a very common thing in our days for men to eulogize faith. Faith was the condition of receiving the revelation and enjoying the promise which the Lord Jesus had to communicate. THE OBJECT OF FAITH, AS ENJOINED BY CHRIST. The words which comforted them have proved consolatory to Christ's people in every age, and especially to those in affliction of spirit. And hence, too, the intercessory prayer which was at that juncture of their need offered so fervently on their behalf. Hence the special revelation with which they were on this occasion favored. Hence the sympathizing and consolatory tone of his last sustained and leisurely conversation with them. Yet he thought tenderly of the sorrow of his disciples on their own account. Thomson The dark shadow of our Lord's approaching agony and death was now upon his heart.
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