But will God take one so feeble as I, and put me entirely right?” The struggling and wrestling and seeking are the beginnings of faith in you—­a faith that desires and hopes.  But it must go on further.  And how can that faith advance?  Look at the second step.  There is the nobleman, and Christ speaks to him this wonderful word:  “Go thy way; thy son liveth;” and the nobleman simply rests upon that word of the living Jesus.  He rests on it, and without any proof of what he is to get, and without one man in the world to encourage him.  He goes away home with the thought, “I have received the blessing I sought; I have got life from the dead for my son.  The living Christ promised it me, and on that I rest.”  The struggling, seeking faith has become a resting faith.  The man has entered into rest about his son.

And now, dear believers, this is the one thing God asks you to do:  God has said that in Christ you have eternal life, the more abundant life; Christ has said to you, “I live, and ye shall live also.”  The Word says to us that Christ is our Peace, our Victory over every enemy, who leads us into the rest of God.  These are the words of God, and His message has come to us that Christ can do for us what Moses could not have done.  Moses had no Christ to live in him.  But it is told you that you can have what Moses had not; you can have a living Christ within you.  And are you going to believe that, apart from any experience, and apart from any consciousness of strength?  If the peace of God is to rule in your heart, it is the God of peace Himself must be there to do it.  The peace is inseparable from the God.  The light of the sun—­can I separate that from the sun?  Utterly impossible.  As long as I have the sun I have the light.  If I lose the sun; I lose the light.  Take care!  Do not seek the peace of God or the peace of Christ apart from God and Christ.  But how does Christ come to me?  He comes to me in this precious Word; and just as He said to the nobleman, “Go thy way home; thy son liveth,” so Christ comes to me to-day, and He says, “Go thy way; thy Saviour liveth.”  “Lo, I am with you alway.”  “I live, and ye shall live also.”  “I wait to take charge of your whole life.  Will you have me do this?  Trust to me all that is evil and feeble; your whole sinful and perverse nature—­give it up to Me; that dying, sin-sick soul—­give it up to Me, and I will take care of it.”  Will you not listen and hear Him speak to your soul?  “Child, go forward into all the circumstances of life that have tempted you; into all the difficulties that threaten you.”  Your soul lives with the life of God; your soul lives in the power of God; your soul lives in Christ Jesus.  Will you not, like the nobleman, take the simple step of faith, and believe the word Jesus hath spoken?  Will you not say, “Lord Jesus, Thou hast spoken:  I can rest on Thy Word.  I have seen that Christ is willing to be more to me than I ever knew; I have seen that Christ is willing to be my life in the most actual and intense meaning of the words.”  All that we know about the Holy Ghost sums itself up in this one thing:  The Holy Ghost comes to make Christ an actual, indwelling, always-abiding Saviour.