The Power of Faith in the Time of Difficulty - All The LORD is near Daily Devotionals for 2026

Jesus said to her, "Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?"
John 11:40

The Power of Faith in the Time of Difficulty
In our Lord's reply to Martha we have one of the most blessed utterances that ever fell on the human ear: "Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?" What living depth, what divine power, what freshness and comfort in these words! They present to us the very gist and marrow, the essential principle of the divine life. It is only the eye of faith that can see the glory of God. Unbelief sees only difficulties, darkness, and death. Faith looks above and beyond all these, and ever basks in the blessed beams of the divine glory.

Poor Martha saw nothing but a decomposed human body, simply because she was under a spirit of dark and depressing unbelief. Had she been swayed by an artless faith she would have walked to the tomb in company with Him who is the resurrection and the life, assured that, instead of death and decomposition, she should see the glory of God.

This is a grand principle for the soul to grasp. It is utterly impossible for human language to overstate its value and importance. Faith never looks at difficulties, except indeed to feed on them. It looks not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are unseen. It endures as seeing Him who is invisible. It takes hold of the living God. It leans on His arm; it makes use of His strength; it draws on His exhaustless treasury; it walks in the light of His blessed countenance, and sees His glory shining forth over the darkest scenes of human life.

C. H. Mackintosh
When sorrows assail us, or terrors draw nigh,His love will not fail us, He'll guide with His eye;And when we are fainting, and ready to fail,He'll give what is wanting, and make us prevail.

John Fawcett