Required reading
The Christian's daily walk, in holy security and peace by Henry Scudder (Available from Amazon or free here) - Continue Chapter 15 (Concerning false fears) by reading Section 9.
My summary
Today Scudder continues to instruct us about how false fears are impediments to peace.
Scudder in particular deals with reasons Christians fear they have no faith. They include:
(i) doubtings;
(ii) an unwillingness to die;
(iii) feeling you have no faith.
Most of the section deals with the third reason and speaks a lot about assurance.
What grabbed me
Scudder gave some helpful comments about feelings: ' What do you mean by feeling? If you mean the enjoyment of the things promised, and hoped for, by inward sense; this is to overthrow the nature, and put an end to the use of faith and hope. For faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen, Heb. xi. 1. And the apostle saith, Hope that is seen, is not hope, Rom. viii. 24. Indeed, faith gives a present being of the thing promised to the believer, but it is a being, not in sense, but in hope and assured expectation of the thing promised: wherefore the apostle, speaking of our spiritual conversation on earth, saith, We walk by faith, not by sight, 2 Cor. V. 7. These two, faith and feeling, are opposite one to the other in this sense; for when we shall live by sight and feeling, then we shall cease to live by faith.'
Although feelings are important, they are terribly unreliable.
Next week's reading
Continue Chapter 15 (Concerning false fears) by reading Section 10.
Now it's your turn
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