Thoughts on the Way Home

Sunday, November 04, 2007

When Doubt Becomes Harder Than Faith


Beloved, there is a cure for every spiritual disease in the cross. There is food for every spiritual virtue in the Saviour. We never go to him too often. He is never a dry well, or a vine from which every cluster has been taken. We do not think enough of him. If any lover of the souls of men would do for them the best possible service, he would constantly take them near to Christ. . . .

Faith is born at the cross of Christ. We not only bring faith to the cross, but we find it there. I cannot think of my God bearing all this grief in a human body, even to the death on the cross, and then doubt.
Why, doubt becomes harder than faith when the cross is visible! When Christ is set forth evidently crucified among us, each one of us should cry, "Lord, I believe, for thy death has killed my unbelief."

-From Charles Spurgeon's sermon, "The Valley of Humiliation"