The same is true of us. Trust him. Do not feel your pulse – ‘Am I changed? Am I different?’ Trust him, and soon it will be evident to you. I did not lose my temper when my brother or my father or my mother or my son provoked me, which I always do. I did not lose my temper. I could keep it. God has helped me. There is a new heart within me. I hate my sin and I resist it as I never used to. And although I am a sinner, I am a much calmer person and collected. And I long for spiritual things and to walk with Christ. The evidence mounts up, and you see what he has done within you, just as this man saw his healed boy. And so you have assurance and certainty, and it comes gently and wonderfully often. But you see the gathering of appropriating faith which obeys the Lord and believed what he said.
You may have a son or a daughter, very likely, who has gotten a fever. It is a raging fever. It is a fever of infatuation with this world, or with himself or with herself, or with his friends or with her friends. Suddenly, he does not want Christ; he does not want God; he does not want the Lord. This world is everything, or I am everything. This is the self-importance that can come into us. My friends are everything. Nothing else matters. It is a fever, a spiritual fever. Go to Christ in prayer for your child. He may not heal that fever at once, as the nobleman’s son was healed, but in his time he will take the fever away if you are persistent in prayer, and you trust him, and you look to him. He alone can take that fever away that suddenly infatuates the soul with the things of flesh and of time. He can take away the disease which is unto death.