I was stumbling at the very simplicity of faith. I was
working to win what God was waiting to give, while my latent faculty of
faith, the greatest asset in personality, was lying worthless through
disuse. I thought of my experience on the ocean, when finally, helpless
to help myself, I had left my whole problem with the Pilot and He had
taken command and brought us through to safety, and so I deliberately
gave up the struggle and said to myself, "It is right for me to serve
God and to live for Him, and I will do it whether I have what they call
an 'experience' or not." And, having settled the question, I dismissed
it and waited for instructions.
[Illustration: It Came as Quietly as the Daylight Comes When the Night
is Done]
And then something happened, for, from without, surprising me with its
presence, like the discovery of a welcome but unexpected guest, there
came into my life a deep, great, overflowing peace. I had never known it
before, and therefore I could not by any possibility have imagined it;
but, I recognized it as something from God.
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