The Faith of a Child

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A friend tells of overhearing two little girls, playmates, who were counting over their pennies together. One said, “I have five cents.” The other said, “I have ten cents.” “No,” said the first little girl, “you have just five cents, the same that I have,” but the second child quickly replied, “My daddy said that when he came home tonight he would give me five cents, and so I have ten cents.” The child’s faith gave her proof of that which she did not as yet see, and she counted it as being already hers because it had been promised by her father. So are we to trust the promises of our Heavenly Father, and we, too, can count among our possessions the thing which he has promised to give us.

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