"Now Faith Is The Assurance Of Things Hoped For."

The eye of faith!

(Alexander Smellie, "The Hour of Silence" 1899)

"Now faith is the assurance of things 
hoped for, the conviction of things 
not seen." Hebrews 11:1

Faith beholds invisible realities! 

It is the conviction of things not seen.
It brings the great realities of the spiritual
world within my reach:
  GOD, in HIS glory;
  CHRIST, in HIS beauty and love;
  sin, in its deformity;
  holiness, in its excellence;
  the solemn judgment to come;
  eternity, so blessed--
or so sad.

Faith gives me a firm persuasion
of these unseen realities. It invests
them with a transforming influence
over my heart. I look out, with  the eye 
of faith, and I find myself in their midst.

  
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