Taken from L.B. Cowman’s “Streams in the Desert,” Zondervan Updated Edition
“This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith,” 1 John 5:4.
Trusting even when it appears you have been forsaken; praying when it seems your words are simply entering a vast expanse where no one hears and no voice answers; believing that God’s love is complete and that He is aware of your circumstances, even when your world seems to grind on as if setting its own direction and not caring for life or moving one inch in response to your petitions; desiring only what God’s hands have planned for you; waiting patiently while seemingly starving to death, with your only fear being that your faith might fail — “this is the victory that has overcome the world”; this genuine faith indeed. —George MacDonald