Men of Faith

We are not the men to shrink back and be lost, but to have faith and so to win our souls.--
Heb. 10: 39 (Moffatt).

Winning our souls, we are able to go on and win over all our foes. That is what faith does for us--makes us conquerors over ourselves and over the world.

Men of faith are not the men to shrink back from any task, from any duty or responsibility, from any demand life makes upon them.

Neither are men of faith the men to shrink back and give in to despair when overtaken by adversity or suffering or sorrow. They can face with unflinching courage everything that may oppose or attack them within the sphere of mortality, sure in the confidence that God will take care of them.

No cloud of trouble or sorrow can overshadow a true believer but that his faith will discern a rainbow in it.

Given a man full of faith--faith in God--you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in a grand enterprise, pure and altruistic in his motives, a man of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied, unflagging energy.

Men of faith are not the men to shrink back and become pessimistic because of the evil and ruin they see about them. They believe that ultimately all things will be well, because this is God’s world.

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.

Beyond every valley of darkness faith sees a field of light.

Faith stands on the mount of vision; it hears the music of progress--a mighty chorus of gladness coming up from every kindred, tongue and tribe; it catches glimpses of a redeemed world, and foresees the day when there shall be upon the bells of the horses holiness unto the Lord (Zech. 14: 20), and when shall be fulfilled the vision of the poet:

All heaven is shouting victory
And hell is in despair.

“Our faith, that is the conquest which conquers the world” (I John 5:4, Moffatt). The greatest conquerors are not men of arms, but men of faith.