DOUBTS AND FEARS

Do not deceive yourselves by imagining that there may be something rather gracious in your doubts and fears; your unsettled and unassured frame of mind; as if it betokened humility and a low esteem of yourselves. Beware lest God see in it only a low esteem of his Son Jesus Christ. Beware of guile. May not your staggering, hesitating faith be but half-faith after all? May it not be that you are unwilling to be wholly Christ’s and to have Christ wholly yours? Can that be pleasing to God? “What shall we do that we might work the works of God?” asked the Jews, and the Lord replied “This is the work of God, that ye believe on him who he has sent.” Therefore let us believe; and let us be “strong in faith, giving glory to God.”

Robert Candlish