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"...and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith." — I John 5:4 "Ah yes, God will have to bring us very low down; there will have to come upon us a sense of emptiness and despair and nothingness. It is when we sink down in utter helplessness that the everlasting God will reveal Himself in His power, and that our hearts will learn to trust God alone�But how am I to get that trust? By the death of self. The great hindrance to trust is self-effort. So long as you have your own wisdom and thoughts and strength, you cannot fully trust God. But when God breaks you down, when everything begins to grow dim before your eyes, and you see that you understand nothing, then God is coming nigh; and if you will bow down in nothingness and wait upon God, He will become all. " As long as we are something, God cannnot be all, and His omnipotence cannot do its full work. This is the beginning of faith-utter despair of self, a ceasing from man and everything on earth, and finding our hope in God alone. And then, next, we must understand that faith is rest�When faith in its struggling gets to the end of itself, and just throws itself upon God and rests on Him, then comes joy and victory. Let these be the two dispositions of our souls every day: deep helplessness, and simple childlike rest.
Faith came singing into my room,
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