Our burden of prayer at this time is for those sincere people who have through circumstances surrounding them have lost their personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
I have spoken to several such people in recent weeks. Faith which once burned brightly in their experience now gone - vanished like the vapor trial of the passing aircraft in the sky. Faith has diminished with the passing of time leaving each of them with a growing emptiness and uncertainty in life. Leaving a heavy and growing stack of unanswered questions and a growing pile of excuses as to why they have found themselves in their present condition of faithlessness.
For
feelings come and feelings go, and feelings are deceiving
My warrant is the Word of God, naught else is worth believing.
Though all my heart should feel condemned for want of some sweet token,
There is One greater than my heart, whose Word cannot be broken.
I’ll trust in God’s unchanging Word, till soul and body sever:
For, though all things shall pass away, His Word shall stand forever.
The feelings we have and the changing moods that can cloud and distort
are common to all, and for all can be dangerous. Senses are for things of sense,
reason for the things of heart and mind and faith for the things God.
May those who have lost their personal faith find again the joy of
personal salvation through Jesus Christ. The Cross of Calvary is the strength
and measure of His continuing love.
13 August 2007
