MATURED FAITH

...This mature faith neither asks not for signs and tokens, but bravely believes. Look at the faith of the master mariner- He looses his cable, he steams away from the land. For days, weeks, or even months, he never sees sail or shore; yet on he goes day and night without fear, till one morning he finds himself exactly opposite to the desired haven toward which he has been steering. How has he found his way over the trackless deep? He has trusted in his compass, his nautical almanac, his glass, and the heavenly bodies; and obeying their guidance, without sighting land, he has steered so accurately that he has not change a point to enter into port… Spiritually it is a blessed thing to leave althogether the shores of sight and feeling and say, “Goodbye” to inward feelings, cheering providences, signs, tokens and so forth… to be far out on the ocean of divine love…by the direction of the Word of God.

Culled from Charles Spurgeon’s ALL OF GRACE