DOUBTING

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 5, 1901

The King's Messenger

UNBELIEF is sin; distrust brings death; worrying is disobedience, and — to doubt is to be doomed. Sadness, sorrowing, sickness, and sin are the fruits of doubting. The taproot of trouble is doubt. The source of joy is trust. Belief in God scatters trouble, removes the blues, and brings in the light. The reason of the lack of success of life and power in the Church, in the individual, is simply the lack of faith—not faith in doctrine or dogma, but faith in God. We believe man, but we doubt God, and doubting, we disobey.

“Receive ye the Holy Ghost.” Ye shall receive power, the Holy Ghost coming upon you. We doubt. We do not desire Him. We seek joy, happiness, safety, holiness, usefulness—but not Him. We accept legal and moral precepts and theological beliefs in place of the personal Holy Spirit, and we doubt His presence and abiding power. We ostracize and deny Him. We grieve Him by our distrust of Him, and He is not permitted to enter our hearts to control our lives; and, therefore, we are weakness and not strength; doubt has the supremacy, and sin reigns.

Received by faith, and He will energize our entire being; will turn profession into practice, and make us temples for His indwelling, while we walk in the light as He is in the light; for in Him is no darkness at all. Doubt is dark. Faith is light.

Have faith in God. Faith is the gift of God.