God Judges What We Give By What

Be Assured That Christianity Is Something More Than Forms And Creeds And Ceremonies: There Is Life, And Power, And Reality, In Our Holy Faith.

There Were Few People, Perhaps, More Passionately Fond Of Travelling, And Seeing Fresh Places, And New Scenes, Than Myself; But Now, Since, By The Grace Of God, I Have Seen Beauty In The Lord Jesus, I Have Lost My Taste For These Things.

Now What Is Food For The Inner Man? Not Prayer, But The Word Of God; And Here Again, Not The Simple Reading Of The Word Of God, So That It Only Passes Through Our Minds, Just As Water Passes Through A Pipe, But Considering What We Read, Pondering It Over And Applying It To Our Hearts.

On The Ground Of Our Own Goodness We Cannot Expect To Have Our Prayers Answered. But Jesus Is Worthy, And For His Sake We May Have Our Prayers Answered. There Is Nothing Too Choice, Too Costly, Or Too Great For God To Give Him. He Is Worthy. He Is The Spotless, Holy Child, Who Under All Circumstances Acted According To The Mind Of God. And If We Trust In Him, If We Hide In Him, If We Put Him Forward And Ourselves In The Background, Depend On Him And Plead His Name, We May Expect To Have Our Prayers Answered.

If We Say We Trust In Him, But In Reality Do Not, Then God, Taking Us At Our Word, Lets Us See That We Do Not Really Confide In Him, And Hence Failure Arises.