As I was about to
write this week’s devotional message, a close pastor friend of mine texted me:
“Dude, I am eating up this devotional message.” And he sent me a link of the
following message written by Ellen White. I was blessed as I read them and I
decided I wanted to share this with you rather than my devotional this week. So
here it goes:
Faith
The
just shall live by his faith. Hab. 2:4
On one occasion, when meditating concerning the future, he said, "I will
stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what He
will say unto me." Graciously the Lord answered him: "Write the
vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. . . . The
just shall live by his faith."
The faith that strengthened Habakkuk and all the holy and the just in those
days of deep trial was the same faith that sustains God's people today. In the
darkest hours, under circumstances the most forbidding, the Christian believer
may keep his soul stayed upon the source of all light and power. Day by day,
through faith in God, his hope and courage may be renewed. "The just shall
live by his faith." In the service of God there need be no despondency, no
wavering, no fear. The Lord will more than fulfill the highest expectations of
those who put their trust in Him. He will give them the wisdom their varied
necessities demand. . . .
We must cherish and cultivate the faith of which prophets and apostles have
testified--the faith that lays hold on the promises of God and waits for
deliverance in His appointed time and way. The sure word of prophecy will meet
its final fulfillment in the glorious Advent of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ, as King of kings and Lord of lords. The time of waiting may seem long,
the soul may be oppressed by discouraging circumstances, many in whom
confidence has been placed may fall by the way; but with the prophet who
endeavored to encourage Judah in a time of unparalleled apostasy, let us
confidently declare, "The Lord is in His holy temple: let all the earth
keep silence before Him." Let us ever hold in remembrance the cheering
message, "The vision is yet for an appointed time . . . : though it tarry,
wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. . . . The just
shall live by his faith."
http://www.whiteestate.org/devotional/mlt/02_20.asp
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