“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10).

“And when He was come near, He beheld the city, and wept over it, Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes” (Luke 19:41,42).

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1).

The marvelous “faith chapter,” Hebrews 11, is an amazing chapter. Here, faith is defined, not as some intangible wishfulness, but as “substance” and “evidence.” Let us look closely.

“Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father’s household, home unto thee” (Joshua 2:18).

“Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them” (Psalm 89:9).