If you want to be miserable, look within;
If you want to be distracted, look around;
If you want to be peaceful and happy, look up - look off unto Jesus.
Our only strength, our only comfort, our only light, is to keep the eye of faith fixed on Jesus, and the heart firmly centered on Him.
"The Lord is with thee." There was no "if" in this - no doubt, no reserve, no condition. It was distinct and unqualified, and needed only one thing to make it a spring of joy, strength, and victory in the soul, and that was to mix it with true faith. But then "if" is not faith. True faith never answers God with "ifs", for the simplest of all reasons, that it looks only at God, and there are no "ifs" with Him. Faith reasons from God downwards, not from man upwards.
Faith never says "if" or "why?" It believes what God says, because God says it.
Unbelief looks at circumstances and reasons from them: faith looks at God, and reasons from Him.
Faith always counts on God; and God, blessed be His Name, ever honors faith. He first produces it in us, and then owns it.
If we can do nothing, self-confidence is the height of presumption. If God can do everything, despondency is the height of folly.
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