| Interests "We must ask ourselves what kind of world we wish to live in, and know that we are all a vital part of the solution." Robert Young, founder of Red Feather Development Group, a nonprofit organization assisting American Indians to improve housing conditions on their reservations. Hudson Taylor, pioneer missionary to China, said that Jesus' words in Mark 11:22, "Have faith in God," could be translated, "Hold on to the faithfulness of God." D.Martyn Lloyd-Jones, former pastor of London's Westminster Chapel,appreciated Taylor's insight and said: " Faith is holding on to the faithfulness of God and, as long as you do that, you cannot go wrong. Faith does not look at the difficulties...Faith does not look at itself or at the person who is exercising it. Faith looks at God...Faith is interested in God only, and it talks about God and it praises God and it extols the virtues of God. The measure of the strength of a man's faith, always, is ultimately the measure of his knowledge of God... He knows God so well that he can rest on the knowledge. And it is the prayers of such a man that are answered." Faith quotes from Sept 19, 2007 Our Daily Bread. |