This morning the speaker at the church I was attending mentioned a quote by the great American evangelist from the late 1800s, DL Moody. It expressed exactly what I’ve been trying to explain to a few people I know that claim to be weak in faith (though they WANT to believe). I’ve told them that “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God” (Romans 10:17). In other words, you can’t just WISH for faith if you don’t want to read the very Word that imparts faith. DL Moody said it much better that I could have ever said it.
“I prayed for Faith, and thought that some day Faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But Faith did not seem to come. One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, ‘Now Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God’. I had closed my Bible, and prayed for Faith. I now opened my Bible, and began to study, and Faith has been growing ever since.”
— Dwight L. Moody
Well said, Mr. Moody, well said.
