Today's encouragement comes from Christ's few words of John 11:26b, where we read this:
" . . . Do you believe this?"Our Lord Jesus posed this simple question (above), to Martha, the sister of Lazarus. Christ is asking Martha if she believes a body of doctrine that He had just taught her—regarding Himself (Jesus), the veracity (power) of faith, and the resurrection of the dead.
Such is the nature of all good doctrine, and of the churchman's belief in it: when rightly-construed, it, (good doctrine), always directs the believer to the Person of Jesus. The difference between a regenerated Christian and the devil himself, is not that we intellectually believe different things—but that the atoned-for churchman's faith resides ultimately in the Person of the Redeem-er (Jesus).
[Puritan quote of the day: "A man by faith may come into the presence of God with his mouth open, and may speak all his mind to God.” —William Bridge, in, "A Lifting Up For the Downcast"]
