Mark 11:22 And Jesus answering said to them, Have faith in God. Many years ago, when in my country charge, I returned one afternoon from a funeral, fatigued with the day's work. After a long ride, I had accompanied the mourners to the churchyard. As I neared my stable door, I felt a strange prompting to visit a poor widow who, with her invalid daughter, lived in a lonely cottage in an outlying part of the parish. My natural reluctance to make another visit was overcome by a feeling which I could not resist, and I turned my horse's head towards the cottage. I was thinking only of the widow's spiritual needs; but, when I reached her little house, I was struck with its look of unwonted bareness and poverty. After putting a little money into her hand, I began to inquire into their circumstances, and found that their supplies had been utterly exhausted since the night before. I asked them what they had done. "I just spread it out before the Lord!" "Did you tell your case to any friend?" "Oh no, sir; nobody knows but Himself and me. I knew He wouldn't forget, though I didn't know how He would help me, till I saw you coming riding over the hill, and then I said, 'There's the Lord's answer.'" Many a time has the recollection of this incident encouraged me to trust in the loving care of my heavenly Father. (G. Macdonald, D. D.)One winter morning, a poor little orphan boy of six or eight years begged a lady to allow him to clean away the snow from her door. "Do you get much to do, my little boy?" said the lady. "Sometimes I do," he replied, "but often I get very little." "And are you never afraid that you will not get enough to live on?" The child looked perplexed a moment, and then answered, "Don't you think God will take care of a boy if he puts his trust in Him, and does the best he can?" Parallel Verses KJV: And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God. |
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