“Some of you seek for faith much in the same way as you would dig for a well.
You turn the eye inward upon yourself and search amidst the depths of your polluted heart to find if faith is there;
you search amid all your feelings at sermons and sacraments to see if faith is there;
and still you find nothing but sin and disappointment.
Learn Martha's plan.
She looked full in the face of Jesus;
she saw his dust-soiled feet and sullied garment,
and his eye of more than human tenderness.
She drank in his word:
'I am the resurrection and the life';
and in spite of all she saw and all she felt,
she could not but believe.
The discovery that Jesus made of his love and power,
as the head of dead believers and the head of living believers, revived her fainting soul,
and she cried:
'Yea, Lord, I believe.'
Faith comes by hearing the voice of Jesus.”
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