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Living
ByFaith
"The
just shall live by faith." Gal. 3:11. The sinner
lives by sight; the saint lives by faith. This puts them
into two different spheres of life. One lives in the world
of seen things, while the other lives in the unseen world.
One sees only the circumstances of every day life, while
the other sees the hand of Providence in all
circumstances. It makes a vast difference. By faith man
lives above all earthly circumstances. He is not affected
by "hard times." He lives up where all times are
good times. The most abject poverty has no influence over
his life. If he has no place to lay his head, he has a
place to lay his heart and he is perfectly contented.
Mountains of gold have no more influence over his life
than the kingdoms of the world had over Jesus. He makes no
more obeisance to the world at its offers of riches,
honor, and pleasure than Jesus made to the devil at his
offers of all the glory of the kingdoms of earth. Those
who live by faith do not look around on material things.
They live amid eternal things. They understand that
they are to use every thing that comes to them in life to
help them on in the spiritual life. Those living by faith
live under the influence of the unseen and not the seen.
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