Day Twenty-Eight Morning
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The Sight of Faith ok 2g. Zz ee 'Ass seeing him who is invisible.'
Hebrews 11:27
If we were always doing everything just as if we saw Jesus, how different our lives would be! We may not have seen Jesus face to face yet, but we still love him. And if we behaved as though we could see him everywhere how much happier our lives would be too! How brave and bright and patient we should be, if all the time we could really see Jesus as Stephen saw him! And by faith, the precious faith which God is ready to give to
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all who ask, we may go on our way with this light upon it, 'as seeing him who is invisible.'
These words were said about Moses. Seeing God by faith had three effects on him. First, 'he left Egypt" These words made Moses ready to give up anything for his God and God's people.
It made him true and loyal to God's cause. He did not care for anything else, so long as he saw
God. Secondly, it took away all his fear. The wrath of the king meant nothing to him, when
Jehovah was by his side. Of what should he be afraid? Thirdly, it helped him to wait patiently for forty years in the desert and work patiently for another forty years in the wilderness. Think how strength-giving that sight of faith must have been which helped him to endure everything for eighty years!
Try this for yourself. Ask God, before you go downstairs, for faith, so that you may walk all day long 'as seeing him who is invisible." When
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you are tempted to indulge in something wrong — idleness or carelessness, or selfishness — this will help you to give it up at once. You won't be
~ able to give into sin when you look into the eye of Jesus. When something makes you afraid, this will make you brave and peaceful. How can you fear anything when your God is so near? When lessons, or work, or even having to be quiet with nothing to do, seem very tiresome and you are tempted to be impatient and perhaps cross, this will help you to feel patient; for how can you be impatient when you are looking up to Jesus and he is looking down on you all the time!
God will not leave me all alone, He never nill forsake his own; When not another friend I see, The Lord is looking down on me. rir