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Today's Devotional

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for —Hebrews 11:1 (NASB).

What, after all, is this “faith” which above all things we who have even a grain of it must desire to hold forth to others? “This is the victory which overcomes the world, even our faith.” It is a power, not a mere belief; and power can be shown only in action, only in overcoming resistance. Power that shall lift us one by one above temptations, above cares, above selfishness; power that shall make all things new, and subdue all things unto itself; power by which loss is transmuted into gain, tribulation into rejoicing, death itself into the gate of everlasting life;—is not this the true meaning of faith?

About the author and the source

Caroline Emelia Stephen (1834–1909) was a well-known English writer on Quakerism and co-founder of a charity to befriend young servants. Elizabeth Hodgkin Waterhouse (1834–1918), also English, came of a distinguished family of Friends, and compiled anthologies and wrote books “in an attractive homiletic vein” (The Times, April 6, 1918).