Doubts
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What to Do With Doubt—You hurt the heart of Christ by doubt-
ing, when He has given us such evidences of His love in giving His
own life to save us that we should not perish, but have everlasting life.
He has told us just what to do. “Come unto Me, all ye that labor and
are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (
Matthew 11:28
).—Lt 10,
1893.
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Doubts Disappear in Seeking to Bless Others—There are many
who complain of their doubts, who lament that they have no assurance
of their connection with God. This is often attributable to the fact that
they are doing nothing in God’s cause. Let them seek earnestly to help
and bless others, and their doubts and despondency will disappear.—
Testimonies for the Church 5:395
(1885).
Those who are perpetually talking doubts and demanding addi-
tional evidence to banish their cloud of unbelief do not build on the
Word. Their faith rests on circumstances; it is founded in feeling.
But feeling, be it ever so pleasing, is not faith. God’s Word is the
foundation upon which our hopes of heaven must be built.—Lt 11,
1897.
The More You Talk Doubt, the Darker It Grows (counsel to a
doubting minister)—I saw that angels of God were looking sorrow-
fully toward you. They had left your side and were turning mournfully
away, while Satan and his angels were grinning in exultation over you.
If you had yourself battled with your doubts and not encouraged the
devil to tempt you by talking out your unbelief and loving to dwell
upon it, you would not have attracted the fallen angels about you in
such numbers. But you chose to talk your darkness; you chose to dwell
upon it; and the more you talk and dwell upon it, the darker and darker
you grow.
You are shutting out from you every ray of heaven’s light, and
a great gulf is coming between you and the only ones who can help
you. If you proceed in the way you have started, misery and woe
are before you. God’s hand will arrest you in a manner that will not
suit you. His wrath will not slumber. But now He invites you. Now,
just now, He calls upon you to return unto Him without delay, and
He will graciously pardon and heal all your backslidings. God is
leading out a people who are peculiar. He will cleanse and purify
them and fit them for translation. Every carnal thing will be separated
from God’s peculiar treasures until they shall be like gold seven times
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