Glad Tidings: Or, The Way of Life

True faith takes God at his word. It sets before its eyes the awful scene on Calvary, the sinking head, the gushing blood, the open wounds, the dying words of the Son of God. It remembers that the Father is well pleased with the Son and his work, and through his finished work, he can be just and the justifier of the ungodly.

The man who thus believes in Jesus knows he is forgiven, not because he has been told in a dream or had it whispered to his soul by some mysterious voice, or flashed upon his mind by some sudden impression, but simply because God says it. To trust in my own impressions, feelings, and emotions is sheer fanaticism, but to trust in the testimony of God concerning his Son is highly rational. It is to be able to give a reason for the hope that is in us. Surely there can be no firmer foundation upon which an immortal soul can rest its hopes than the word of that God who cannot lie.