EVEN AS HE - IN OUR FAITH
The wisdom of the fathers
EVEN AS HE continued
16. IN OUR FAITH. Even the power to believe is the working of Christ within us. He is the author and finisher of our faith, and He will enable us to believe even as He. Christ is the great example of faith; He is its inspiration too. How sublime the faith that trusted the Father through the testings of the enemy in the wilderness; that met the power of Satan and sickness through all His earthly ministry with calm reliance upon His Father and victory over all the power of the enemy; that stood at the grave of Lazarus and said, “Father, I know that You hear me always; Lazarus, come forth”; that even upon the cross would say, “Father, into Your hands I commit my spirit,” and afterwards could claim and promise to His disciples all the glories of His coming kingdom and the blessings of the gospel dispensation!
It is the same Christ who lives in us and inspires us with the faith of the Son of God, for our conflicts, testimonies and victories. He who says to us, “Have the faith of God,” will not fail to impart it if we will receive Him and trust Him, and will enable us so to stand in all the hard places of our Christian life, that as He is, so will we be.
(from "Wholly Sanctified" by A.B. Simpson)