p. 754 | Doubt and Unbelief

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 9, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 48.

Doubt and Unbelief

DOUBTING is simply unbelief encouraged. When one walks in a plain path he has no doubt about being in the right way. But when he steps aside and allows his mind to become absorbed in this, that, or the other allurement, he becomes uncertain about the way. If such a wanderer would turn about and earnestly seek the way from which he wandered, doubt would soon be dispelled. But if he persists in following the uncertain path, and seeking for further temporal gratification, he but encourages the doubts. He who has once tasted the goodness of God cannot say that he is ignorant of the way. If confession of sin, repentance toward God, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ assured confidence once, it will do so again. Anyone who has experienced this confidence once, knows how to get it again. He knows also that his doubts are the result of his having departed from Christ, who is the Way. Hence to remain in doubt is to willfully reject Christ.