THEN BELIEVED THEY HIS WORDS.

 

MARCH 29.
 
Then believed they his words.
Psalm 106:12

 

NOTHING is so unreasonable as unbelief,
  and yet nothing is so common.
 
We need no stronger proof of the depravity
  of our nature than this,
    that God is the last being that we believe.
 
We give credit to what is told us by our fellow men;
  we should receive the report of an angel.
 
We constantly believe the falsehoods of Satan;
  but who believes the Lord's word?
 
We say by our conduct,
   “I can believe anyone but God,
         anything but his word.”
 
Is not this awful?
  But it is strictly true.
 
Thus Israel acted in the desert, and
   thus we act in our present circumstances.
 
But when did they believe?
 
Just for a short time when they saw his wonderful works.
 
But they soon forgot his works, and
   waited not for his counsel.
 
We often think that if we saw miracles, or
   heard a voice from heaven,
    we should believe.
But we are mistaken.
 
This has been tried, and it has been found true,
  that if we believe not Moses and the prophets,
  neither should we be persuaded though
   one rose from the dead.
 
If God is to be believed he must give us faith.
 
For we never really believe him,
  but as he works faith in our hearts
    by the power of the Holy Ghost.
 
 

Let me not doubt thy holy word;

   It fills my heart with grief;

I would believe thy promise, Lord;

   O help my unbelief!

 
 
James Smith 1849