# “Believe, wait, and work” by Charles Bridges

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2012/04/05/believe-wait-and-work-by-charles-bridges/
- Published: 2012-04-05T15:30:28-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“It is faith that enlivens our work with perpetual cheerfulness. It commits every
part of it to God, in the hope, that even mistakes shall be overruled for His glory;
and thus relieves us from an oppressive anxiety, often attendant upon a deep sense
of our responsibility.

The shortest way to peace will be found in casting ourselves upon God for daily 
pardon of deficiencies and supplies of grace, without looking too eagerly for present
fruit. Hence our course of effort is unvarying, but more tranquil. It is peace—not
slumber, rest in the work—not from it.

Faith also supports us under the trials of our Ministerial warfare with the clear
view of the faithfulness of the covenant, and the stability of the church. And indeed,
as all the promises are made to faith, or to the grace springing from it, this is
the only spring of Christian courage, and Christian hope.

Unbelief looks at the difficulty. Faith regards the promise… But after all, the 
grand secret is habitually to have our eye upon Christ. Peter—looking at the waves
instead of the Saviour— began to sink.

We too—if we look at the difficulties of our work, and forget the upholding arm 
of our ever-present Head—shall sink in despondency. _Believe—wait— work_—are the
watchwords of the Ministry.

Believing the promise, gives the power to wait. Waiting supplies strength for work,
and such working is not in ‘vain in the Lord.'”

–Charles Bridges, _[The Christian Ministry](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0851510876?tag=toletaupanre-20)_(
Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1830/2005), 178-179.

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## Comments

### By: Jesaja 66:2

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2012/04/05/believe-wait-and-work-by-charles-bridges/comment-page-1/#comment-5212
- Published: 2012-04-06T04:58:56-05:00

Unbelief looks at the difficulty. Faith regards the promise in Christ! Let’s learn
that every day!