Donald Wheeler's List: Religion

When my agony of soul was at its height, a sentence in a letter from dear  McCarthy was used to remove the scales from my eyes, and the Spirit of God  revealed the truth of our oneness with Jesus as I had never known it before.  McCarthy, who had been much exercised by the same sense of failure, but saw the  light before I did, wrote (I quote from memory): 'But how to get faith  strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful  One.'

"As I

….Here is a man almost sixty years of age, bearing tremendous burdens, yet  absolutely calm and unruffled. Oh, the pile of letters! Any one of which might  contain news of death, or shortness of funds, or riots or serious trouble. Yet  all were opened, read and answered with the same tranquility--Christ his reason  for peace, his power for calm. Dwelling in Christ he partook of His very being  and resources, in the midst of and concerning the very matters in  question.

"Yet he was delightfully free and natural. I can find no words  to describe it save the Scriptural expression 'in God.' He was 'in God' all the  time, and God in him. It was the true 'abiding' of John 15."