The Present Pressing Problem
If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes (Mark 9:23).
Our unbelief is the greatest hindrance in our life! In fact, there is no other real difficulty as to our spiritual progress and prosperity. Our Lord can do everything; but when He makes a rule that according to our faith so shall it be unto us, our unbelief ties the hands of His omnipotence.
The confederacies of evil shall be scattered if we can but believe. Despised truth shall lift its head if we will but have confidence in the God of truth. We can bear our load of trouble or pass uninjured through the waves of distress if we can gird our loins with the girdle of peace, that girdle which is buckled on by the hands of trust.
What can we not believe? Is everything possible except believing in God?
Why do we not believe in Him? Why can we not trust Him?
He is always true; He is always faithful to His word; When we are in a right state of heart, faith costs no effort: it is then as natural for us to rely upon God as for a child to trust his father.
The worst of it is that we can believe God about everything except the present pressing problem! This is folly.
Shake off such sinfulness! And trust your God with the load, the labor, the longing of this present.
Our God is the God of the present tense!
He is I am that I am!
He shall help you in the present tense, that is now!
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble (Psalm.46:1-3).
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