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Tried faith brings experience.
DIR By: Runner
Date: November 12, 2012, 12:29 am
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By Charles H Spurgeon.
The trial of your faith. 1Pet 1:7
Faith untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little
faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is
without trials.
Faith never prospers so well as when all things are against
her: tempests are her trainers, and lightnings are her
illuminators. When a calm reigns on the sea, spread the sails as
you will, the ship moves not to its harbour; for on a slumbering
ocean the keel sleeps too.
Let the winds rush howling forth, and let the waters lift up
themselves, then, though the vessel may rock, and her deck may
be washed with waves, and her mast may creak under the pressure
of the full and swelling sail, it is then that she makes headway
towards her desired haven.
No flowers wear so lovely a blue as those which grow at the foot
of the frozen glacier; no stars gleam so brightly as those which
glisten in the polar sky; no water tastes so sweet as that which
springs amid the desert sand; and no faith is so precious as
that which lives and triumphs in adversity. Tried faith brings
experience. You could not have believed your own weakness had
you not been compelled to pass through the rivers; and you would
never have known God’s strength had you not been supported amid
the water-floods.
Faith increases in solidity, assurance, and intensity, the more
it is exercised with tribulation. Faith is precious, and its
trial is precious too.
Let not this, however, discourage those who are young in faith.
You will have trials enough without seeking them: the full
portion will be measured out to you in due season. Meanwhile, if
you cannot yet claim the result of long experience, thank God
for what grace you have; praise him for that degree of holy
confidence whereunto you have attained: walk according to that
rule, and you shall yet have more and more of the blessing of
God.
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Re: Tried faith brings experience.
DIR By: Leaf
Date: November 12, 2012, 9:00 pm
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Runner,
Spurgeon has some wonderful sermons!
Do you still have ... hmmm.... you posted something one time
about all the different types of faith. I think it started with
beginning faith and ended with perfect faith. Do you still have
that?
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Re: Tried faith brings experience.
DIR By: Runner
Date: November 12, 2012, 10:34 pm
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Leaf...I can't say that I do...but I do remember it.
It must be back on the other site...I think the last site, not
the older one....but I may be wrong, it may be on the older
one!!
Sorry, that's not much help at all is it!! ::)
PS...Kerry, feel free to edit this if it is still 'flashing red'
okay!
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