It may not be in the way you wish,
but if not, you will say at last, 'This is better.' It may be that he will
come in a form that will make you cry out for fear in the weakness of your
faith, as the disciples cried out--not believing any more than they did,
that it can be he. But will not each of you arouse his courage that to you
also he may say, as to the woman with the sick daughter whose confidence he
so sorely tried, 'Great is thy faith'? Will you not rouse yourself, I say,
that you may do him justice, and cast off the slavery of your own dread?
O ye of little faith, wherefore will ye doubt? Do not think that the Lord
sees and will not come. Down the mountain assuredly he will come, and you
are now as safe in your troubles as the disciples were in theirs with Jesus
looking on. They did not know it, but it was so: the Lord was watching
them. And when you look back upon your past lives, cannot you see some
instances of the same kind--when you felt and acted as if the Lord had
forgotten you, and found afterwards that he had been watching you all the
time?
"But the reason why you do not trust him more is that you obey him so
little.
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