Today's encouragement comes from Luke 8:25a, where we read these words:
"But [Jesus] said to [His disciples], 'Where is your faith?' "Our Lord Jesus does not ask the twelve disciples, "Why do you not have enough faith?" (above). Instead, He asks them, "*Where* is your faith?" Sometimes our faith may seem to "leave" us, or go away, or be absent (espe-cially when we most feelingly need it). Christ implies that had His followers summoned their faith in Him, they might not have needed to wake Him (the Messiah) from His nap (on the boat).
Today, we may hear of a lot of the bad news in the world, and we (even God's churchmen) may be tempted to fear, or to be rattled to such an extent that we may say—like the twelve—"We are perishing!" (v. 24). But instead of this, let us rally our faith in God, and call it to mind. As we do so, we are ushering to our very hearts, and our sides, our Lord Jesus Himself.
[Puritan quote of the day: "God must be revealed to us as lovely and desir-able . . . before we can ever love God. The saints, in this sense, do not love God for nothing.” —John Owen, in, "Communion with God"]
