FAITH ISN'T COMFORTABLE

"You will never learn faith in comfortable surroundings. God gives us the promises in a quiet hour; God seals our covenants with great and gracious words, then He steps back and waits to see how much we believe; then He lets the tempter come, and the test seems to contradict all that He has spoken. It is then that faith wins its crown. That is the time to look up through the storm, and cry, "I believe God that it shall be even as it was told me."

(Source: L.B. Cowman, "Streams in the Desert")