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about trusting God for the distant and future prospect of salvation after
death! There is scarcely a sinner in a Christian land that does not trust
to be saved some day, but there is no grasp in faith like this. It is only
when we come face to face with positive issues and overwhelming forces
that we can prove the reality of Divine power in a supernatural life.
Hence as an education to our very spirits as well as a gracious provision
for our temporal life, God has trained His people from the beginning to
recognize Him as the supply of all their needs, and to look to Him as the
Physician of their bodies and Father of their spirits. Beloved, have you
learned the meaning of Jehovah-rophi, and has it changed your Marah of
trial into an Elim of blessing and praise?

SEPTEMBER 24.

"He calleth things that are not as though they were" (Rom. iv. 17).

The Word of God creates what it commands. When Christ says to any of us
"Now are ye clean through the word which I have spoken unto you," We are
clean. When He says "no condemnation" there is none, though there has been
a lifetime of sin before. And when He says, "mighty through God to the
pulling down of strongholds," then the weak are strong. This is the part
of faith, to take God at His Word, and then expect Him to make it real. A
French commander thanked a common soldier who had saved his life and
called him captain, although he was but a private, but the man took the
commander at his word, accepted the new name and was thereby constituted
indeed a captain.

Shall we thus take God's creating word of justification, sanctification,
power and deliverance and thus make real the mighty promise, "He giveth
power to the faint, and to them that have no might He increaseth strength;
for they that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength."

SEPTEMBER 25.

"The faith of the Son of God" (Gal. ii. 20).

Let us learn the secret even of our faith. It is the faith of Christ,
springing in our heart and trusting in our trials. So shall we always
sing, "The life that I now live I live by the faith of the Son of God, who
loved me and gave Himself for me." Thus looking off unto Jesus, "the
Author and Finisher of our faith," we shall find that instead of
struggling to reach the promises of God, we shall lie down upon them in
blessed repose and be borne up by them with the faith which is no more our
own than the promises upon which it rests. Each new need will find u