Unbelief Due to Fears

Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ -Philippians 1:6

I have known not a few whose unbelief has arisen through a sacred anxiety to be right-a most proper anxiety if not pushed beyond its sphere. The idea has been suggested to them: “Suppose I should be after all presumptuous, and should deceive myself, by thinking I am saved, whereas I am not? What if I should film the wound, when it ought to be lanced, before there can be effectual healing.” How I wish that all hypocrites would be troubled with this sort of fear. It would be a great mercy for many boastful professors if they had grace enough to doubt.

Some others have been made to shiver with unbelief on account of fears for the future. “I am afraid I shall not hold on,” says one. “Why, to be a Christian you must persevere to the end. With such a heart as mine, how can I hope to be steadfast: and in such a position as mine, surrounded by so many ungodly associates, how can I hope to persevere? I see so-and-so made a profession, and he is gone back; and I know such an one who said he was a Christian, and he is a worse man than he used to be. Suppose the last end of me should be worse than the first; suppose I should put my hand to the plough and should look back and prove unworthy of the kingdom.” Poor heart, it forgets that word, “I will never leave thee nor forsake thee;” and remembers not that other word, “I give unto my sheep eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of my hand.” Rightly filled with a holy anxiety to hold on to the end, it gives way to improper unbelief, for it ought to rest confident that Jesus changeth not; and, where He has begun the good work, He will carry it on and perfect it unto the day of Christ.~ C.H. Spurgeon

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