The Charm of the Serpent.
Some one has uttered the statement that it is “with a fascinating, bewitching power unbelief and infidelity fasten themselves upon the mind.” The fascination toward doubting and unbelief has much of the charm of the serpent in it. The serpent charms the victim into doing something which it really should not do, and which, if left to itself, in its sober, reflective moments it would not do. And so when we find the fascinations of unbelief entering into our minds, we should put ourselves on guard at once. We can cultivate unbelief if we so desire, or we can cultivate faith. We will have whichever we labor to produce. If we stand with God to cultivate faith, we stand with the great Creator, we stand with the source of all life and power. But if we stand on the side of unbelief, we stand with the great doubter himself, who, in his opposition to God and to truth, is seeking to charm the minds of men into the follies and absurdities of unbelief. Why should we stand with the doubters and be uncertain in regard to the future, when God has made it so that we may stand with Him upon the great foundation of truth, and have the consolations of the divine knowledge, day by day, that we are to have an eternal existence with Him amid the undimmed joys of immortality?