Faith

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1).

This is not so much a definition of the principle of faith as a description of its power. Not so much what faith is as what it does, as illustrated in the examples afterwards introduced in the chapter. Faith lays hold upon the unseen, the invisible. Faith brings these things near to us, so that in their presence we live and walk and wait and rejoice. What is needed just now is simply to believe God. Faith is the commencement of the Christian life, and is the foundation of all our spiritual blessings. It has been said that "faith makes a Christian; life proves a Christian; and death crowns a Christian."

—J.F.S.

Bread and Water

There is only one kind of Water
Which quenches all thirst—
There is only one kind of Bread
Which satisfies all hunger.

"He that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and He that believeth on Me shall never thirst" (John 6:33).