I DON’T believe in her! that’s all about it,” said Dick Smith to his cousin Emily Morton as they chatted concerning a companion whom they had met by the sea shore.
“What do you mean?” asked Emily.
“O, you know well enough, Emily!” was the quick reply. “I don’t trust her; I don’t believe she’s true to her word, or to her friends. I have not a scrap of confidence in anything she says or does. What’s the matter?” asked Dick, as Emily Morton’s face suddenly lightened and a bright flash came into her great brown eyes, and her full lips parted as though to speak.
“I’ve found it all out. O, I am so glad!”
“Found what out?”
But Emily Morton had moved away, leaving Dick half perplexed, half offended. Into the house she went as soon as she could to lock her door and have a quiet think. Hear what she says to herself,
“I see it now; I know what believing in the Lord Jesus means. It means to trust in Him; to believe He is true to His promise and His friends; to put all my confidence in what He has done and said. Why, how simple it is, and how foolish I have been! I have been puzzling over it so long—so long.”
Then Emily buried her face in her hands, and knelt down to tell the Lord Jesus how thankful she was that Dick Smith’s chance words about her companion had gone right home to her heart, clearing away all her doubts and difficulties, and showing her just what “believing” in Him meant.
I wonder if any young reader has been puzzling over Emily Morton’s question, “What is it to believe in Jesus?”
You can understand what believing in your mother, your friend, your teacher means. Now just apply that power of believing in them, to believing in Jesus. He never breaks a promise, never deserts or forsakes any who trust in Him. He is worthy of all your heart’s trust, your soul’s confidence. He is the most precious and perfect Friend any one can have, and all that He has done is perfect, and all that He says is true.
Can you not trust Him? Put your confidence in Him now.
ML 05/09/1937