Trading on a Man's Word

Ita man promise, they reckon much of that; they can tarry upon man’s security, but coimt God’s word nothing worth. They can trade with a factor beyond seas, and trust all their estate in a man’s hands whom they have never seen; a7id yet the word oj the 17ifallible God is of little regard and respect with them, even then when he is willing to give an earnest of the promised good.’ It is noteworthy that in ordinary life small matters of business are transacted by sight, and articles valued by pence are paid for over the counter: for larger things we give cheques which are really nothing but pieces of paper made valuable by a man’s name; and in the heaviest transactions of all, millions change from hand to hand without a coin being seen, the whole depending upon the honour and worth of those who sign their hands. What then? shall not the Lord be trusted? Ay, with our whole being and destiny. It ought to be the most natural thing in all the world to trust God; and to those who dwell near him it is so. Where should we trust but in him who has all power and truth and love within himself. We commit ourselves into the hands of our faithful Creator and feel ourselves secure. “Blessed is he that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.”