[November 14]
Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. John 20:29
NOW, while it is dark, before the Sun of Righteousness
has arisen with healing in his beams, to scatter
all the doubts and fears and hindrances, the Lord
puts a premium upon faith, and only those who can and
do exercise it may and do have certain rewards, privileges,
opportunities, and blessings.
Of the Gospel-age
little flock it is written, we "walk by faith and not by
sight."
We endure, "as seeing him who is invisible";
we run for a crown and a throne which we may see
only with the eye of faith; we obey the voice of him
who speaketh from heaven, but whose voice now is the
still small voice, which only the few who exercise faith
can hear, appreciate, and understand.
By and by the
time will come when this voice shall shake the earth
and cause the knowledge of the Lord to fill the whole
earth.
Obedience then will be proper and bring a
blessing; but obedience now, even unto sacrifice of
earthly interests in following the footsteps of him who
set us an example, brings the greater blessings—the
blessings which pertain not only to the life which now
is, but also to that which is to come—the blessings of
glory, honor, and immortality. Z'01-141 R2804:5 (Hymn 46)