ESTABLISHED FAITH Romans 1.11 Part 3

The wisdom of the fathers

ESTABLISHED FAITH Romans 1.11 Part 3

A brother said once: " Brethren, when I was a little boy I believed in God and Jesus, and had so much joy, — I wish I could have the simple piety of my boyhood days." He meant he had become great; had waded through book after book; it is so easy for a learned or a rich man to get the "big head."

We need to have the root of inbred sin destroyed; skepticism killed at the taproot. So long as you have depravity in your heart, you have infidelity at the taproot; the Holy Ghost removes it, and you become "rooted and grounded" in faith to God, all the way along.

Though you may have a great deal of knowledge, you have a faith that keeps above philosophy and mere reason. What is grander than to see a man with half a university in his head, with a simple faith in God ? You need a faith that is complete every day, so that every day we trust the blood of Jesus right now; trust His special providences every day; a faith that never falters or questions, and so " rooted and grounded" that you go on believing as easily as you breathe. You will go on believing God when sick and delirious. I have met people who forget their own name, but never the name of Jesus.

(from "Love Abounding" by George D. Watson)