This quote from Oswald Chambers is a balm and a prompting for those on the fence about faith in Christ: either a faith they once professed without believing, or one they adhered to out of family upbringing, or one they actually embraced and accepted sincerely until the evil one came and snatched that seed away.
I can’t think of a more clear and simple pleading during this Easter Week:
“You remember your father and mother who prayed and talked of sin and righteousness and judgment to come, but you have other things to heed; you are more enlightened; you read sceptical books, controversial books, that attack the foundations of your faith.
If these things have crept unawares into our hearts, let us get back in penitence and consider what is the foundation on which we must build our most holy faith, namely, that ‘God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life’ (John 3:16). Let us get down to the cross, to the broken heart of our God, down to the propitiation for our sins; let us put away the books that have sapped our faith…that have weighed our lives down to the dust, and looking to Jesus, let us build ourselves up on our most holy faith.”
Oswald Chambers, in The Love of God: An intimate look at the Father-Heart of God
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