A Different Tactic...

Greetings after such a long time....
This is a simple posting to say that since I fail so miserably to actually keep this updated with personal postings, I am going to endeavor to at least post verses and quotes/thoughts from the books and so forth that I am reading, so that perhaps you all can share in what the Lord is causing to filter through and challenge my thinkings. As always, the desire is that we might know Him and provoke each other to further diligent pursuit of that high calling.

Here is an excerpt from today's perusal of the writings of missionary Lilias Trotter:

Trained Faith
"As an eagle...fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings--so the Lord alone did lead him."
Fluttereth over--the early stages of faith are reaching upward, like the eaglets for their food when the mother-bird is overhead. it is an older faith that learns to swing out into nothingness and drop down full weight on God--the broken-up nest of former "experiences" left behind--nothing between us and the abyss by God Himself. Trained faith is a triumphant gladness in having nothing but God--not rest, no foothold--nothing but Himself. A triumphant gladness in swinging out into that abyss, rejoicing in every emergency that is going to prove Him true. "The Lord alone"--that is trained faith.