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A passenger on an ocean steamer, exposed for three days to a winter’s cyclone of terrific violence, was standing on the deck in one of the fiercest moments of the storm, and saw a little sea bird flutter an instant in the face of the gale, and then settle down on a wave and fold its wings in restful quiet. So may the believer in Christ do in the darkest hour of trial. “Let not your heart be troubled,” said the Master; “believe in God; believe also in me.”
This is the one great lesson of Christian faith – “Believe.” “Into thy hands I commit my spirit.” “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee.” Stayed on thee! These words tell the whole story. They picture a child nestling in the mother’s bosom, letting its whole little weight down upon her. It has no fear, and nothing disturbs it, for the mother’s love is all about it. “Stayed” means reposing. It suggests also the thought of continuousness of trust and abiding. Too much of our trust is broken, intermitting, this hour singing, next hour in tears, dismayed. If we would have unbroken peace we must have unbroken trust, our minds stayed upon God all the while.
God is strong, omnipotent. We need not fear that his power to keep us will ever fail. There never is a moment when he is not able to sustain us. When the question is asked, “From whence shall my help come?” the answer is, “My help cometh from Jehovah, who made heaven and earth.” He who made all the worlds and keeps them all in being can surely bear up one little human life and protect it from harm.
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