Week 50 Day 4

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Contending for the Faith

I . . . exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

Jude 3

In the conquests of thy might,

May I loyally delight;

In thy ever-spreading reign,

Triumph as my greatest gain:

Make me conscious by this sign,

Gracious Saviour, I am thine.

For Abraham Lincoln, faith in God didn’t come easily. Maybe that’s why he contended so strongly for the faith. Ruth Painter Randall wrote in her book Courtship of Mr. Lincoln, “It often happens that people who have come through a long, baffling siege of the spirit, grappling with problems that seem to have no solution, unable to decide which course of action to take, cease struggling to turn to their religious faith and rest their weary souls in waiting for a revelation of divine guidance. Such was Lincoln’s state now. He was a man of deep religious feeling. All the rest of his life one finds incidents in which he placed his reliance on the will of God.” Lincoln’s faith was tested by many trials and tribulations, but in the end he rested his faith in God.