Ask Spurgeon

Have you sometimes said, with the Apostle Paul, "O wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from this body of death?"

Have you found yourself despairing at your sin, and wonder why?

Does it bother you that, though a believer in Jesus, your sin and temptation upset you so m much?
Do you somehow wonder whether this is the normal state of the believer?
Do other believers feel their sin and temptation as deeply as you do?

Have you ever wondered why God saved you?

Did He like what He saw in you? 

On the other hand, there may not be much that YOU see in you!

Well, God's Word makes clear that it has nothing to do with you. Take a listen...  

We are all prone to self-dependence. We like the idea, and the reward, of doing things on our own.

But when it comes to our faith, our right standing with God, such an attitude is completely out of place. To rely on self for salvation is to remain in sin...and lost forever!

Christian, are you confidant that when you die, you will find yourself welcomed into the presence of God?

How can you be sure?

There are often times when, in our walk with God, our faith comes under attack. 

We begin to question God's faithfulness and wonder whether there is anything that we can do to earn it back.

 

Are you afraid about what tomorrow may bring?

Many reasons may be behind such anxieties. When our future intimidate us, where can we hope to find peace?

We are seeing more and more professors of faith publicly renounce their faith in Jesus! Heresy in one time faithful denominations is as a wildfire!

Our faith in Jesus seems under severe attack!

It can be terribly discouraging! What are we to make of it?

The world's increasing animosity toward our faith in Jesus can be intimidating.

This is not the free world, unless we embrace it's secular world-view!

What are we to do?

Nobody likes confrontation! 

Sometimes the best way to deal with it is to find some kind of compromise. 

But if we are going to be true to God's Word, we will find, as we are finding, confrontation with the world.

Can we compromise that Truth for the sake of peace?