"Living Faith" - Samuel Ward

“Faith is to be put to use! This is the chief mystery of our spiritual life. Stir up your soul in this mountain to talk with Christ. Consider all the promises and privileges you regularly enjoy. Now actually think of them, roll them under your tongue, chew on them until you fell their sweetness in the palate of your soul. View them together and individually. Sometimes contemplate one in particular or another more deeply.Consider how wonderful it is that you debts have been cancelled, and that the wrath of God has been satisfied. Consider how happy and safe a condition you are in by being a son of God, and how pleasant a state not to fear death and hell. Consider how stately a thing it is to be an heir of glory. Mingle these thoughts with your prayers to heaven for grace and aid. Do not leave the mountain until your heart has been cheerfully warmed and revived in strength for the next day.This is using your faith. It is living by faith. You will find your soul saying, with good reason, ‘It is good to be here.’ It is good to be here daily, to come here often!...Let a man diligently and thoroughly make use of his faith and it will become great, and great will be the joy that it will bring to him.”

- Samuel Ward, Living Faith