FAITH IS GOD'S PRICELESS GIFT. It is the fruit of everlasting love, the gift of grace; we believe through grace. Faith which is the evidence of salvation, includes giving credit to the gospel report of a free and full salvation for poor, unworthy sinners. It is an application to Jesus on the throne of grace, founded on that report, and a trusting in the work and death of Jesus for salvation. This always produces love to Jesus and leads the soul to obey Him out of gratitude. It is precious; being scarce, few thus believe; being valuable, without it we cannot please God, cannot be justified, cannot rejoice in hope, or enjoy gospel blessings; but he that believeth is entitled to every precious promise, to all the fulness of Christ, to enjoy God in the new covenant relation, and shall never see death. He is passed from death to life, and shall never come into condemnation. Gracious God! Give unto Thy people, and unto me especially, much precious faith, that believing in Jesus, I may rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. O to believe this day without wavering! O to be strong in faith, giving glory to God!

For Meditation:
O for a faith that will not shrink
Tho' pressed by many a foe,
That will not tremble on the brink
Of any earthly woe;
A faith that shines more bright and clear
When tempests rage without,
That, when in danger, knows no fear,
In darkness feels no doubt.