Job 13:15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain my own ways before him. Faith is the reliance of the heart on God. On the one hand, it is not any mere operation of the understanding. On the other hand, it is not any assurance about our state before God. There are, perhaps, two chief ways in which we may arrive at the assurance that we are children of God. The one is looking to Christ; the other is the examination of Scripture, to see what are the marks of God's children. When faith is true, there are many degrees and stages in it. We may have a faith which can just touch the hem of Christ's garment, and that is all that it can do; and if it does this it is healing, because it is true. But there is a wide difference of degree between this infancy of faith and its manhood. It requires a strong faith to look beyond and above a frowning providence, and to trust in God in the dark. It is the Word of God, and not the dispensations of providence, which is the basis on which faith rears her column, the soil into which she sinks her roots; and resting on this she can say with Job, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him." But it is very important to distinguish between two things which many, and especially young Christians, often confound together, that is, faith and feeling. Changeful as we are in every way, there is no part of us so subject to change as our feelings — warm one day, and even hot, how cold and chilled they are the next. If we walk, not by feeling but by faith, then, when all around us and all within us is dark, we shall still cling to God's faithful Word; we shall feel that it is we who change, and not God. (George Wagner.) Parallel Verses KJV: Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.WEB: Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him. |
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