Welcome to Anxiety, Ambition, Indecision, a sermon by Charles Haddon Spurgeon. This Reformation audio resource is a production of Stillwaters Revival Books. Many free resources, as well as our complete mail-order catalog containing classic and contemporary Puritan and Reformed books, CDs, and much more at great discounts, are on the web at www.PuritanDownloads.com. Also, please consider, pray, and act upon the important truths found in the following quotation by Charles Spurgeon. As the Apostle says to Timothy, so also he says to everyone, give yourself to reading. He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature. but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers and expositions of the Bible. The best way for you to spend your leisure is to be either reading or praying. And now to SWRB's reading of Anxiety, Ambition, and Decision, which we hope you find to be a great blessing, and which we pray draws you nearer to the Lord Jesus Christ, For he is the way, the truth, and the life, and no man cometh unto the Father but by him." Gospel of John chapter 14 verse 6 Anxiety, Ambition, Indecision sermon number 2871 published on Thursday February 18th 1904 delivered by Charles Hatton Spurgeon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in Newington on Thursday evening January 27th 1876 Neither be ye of doubtful mind Luke 12 29 The chief concern of a man should be to see that his own soul is right in the sight of God. Solomon said, Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life. Many persons think a great deal about the adorning of the body, but do not think anything about the ornaments of the soul. The feeding of the physical frame engrosses much care, but the supply of spiritual food is often neglected. Yet, O man, thou thyself art better than thy body. Thine immortal soul is worth far more than that poor carcass of thine which will soon become food for worms. Pad all the things that thou hast. What are they compared with thine inner self, thy real self, thy heart, thy soul, thy spirit? In our text, our Savior bids us see to the condition of our mind, neither be ye of doubtful mind. He thus calls our attention to the higher state and nobler part of our mind, and bids us to see to it that it is in a right state. No doubt there are some people who are in easier circumstances than others. Some who are in positions where they enjoy many comforts, while others are in places where they suffer many hardships. But after all, happiness lies more in the mind than it does in the circumstances in which any individual is found. And the man within has far more to do with his own joy and sorrow than anything outside of him has. There have been some who have been perfectly free in a prison, while others have been in absolute bondage, with wide estates to roam over. We have known some whose spirits have triumphed when all around has tended to depress them, and we have seen others who were wretched and desponding when they had, apparently, all that heart can wish. It is the mind which is the main thing. It will bring thee daylight, and midnight, wealth or poverty, peace or war. I wish, dear friends, that half the time we spend in trying to better our circumstances were spent in bettering ourselves after the right fashion, and that even a tenth of the trouble we take to fit our circumstances to our desires were used in fitting our desires to our circumstances. If we did that, how much happier men and women we should be! Try as you may, you cannot alter the world in which your law is cast, and you cannot alter God's providential arrangements. So, would it not be better that you should be altered so as to suit the providence, and be resigned to the will of God? It is beautiful to see how often the inspired writers of Holy Scripture were busy with what I may call indoor work, the work that has to be done within one's own heart. Bless the Lord, O my soul, says David in the 103rd Psalm, and all that is within me bless his holy name. This indoor work, brethren and sisters in Christ, will always pay us best, and our Lord Jesus, in His exhortations, often bids us attend to it. Did He not say to His disciples, Let not your heart be troubled? A little later he said to them, In the world ye shall have tribulation. And he says the same to his disciples in every age. It is no use for you to try to avoid that, for you will have tribulation. Yet let not your heart be troubled. All the water in the sea will not hurt your vessel so long as you keep it outside. the danger begins when it gets within the ship. So it matters little what is outside you if all is right inside. Have that little bird in your bosom that sings sweetly of the love of God. Wear the flower called heart's ease in your buttonhole and you may go merrily through a perfect wilderness of trouble and a desert of care. A hurricane of afflictions may beat about you, yet you shall be a blessed man, for all the elements of blessedness are within your own heart. God has given them to you, and the devil himself cannot take them away. And speaking upon this text, I mean to preach a good part of the sermon to myself, for I need it as much as anybody else. But I ask each brother and sister to take home to themselves any part that suits them, and before I have done, I shall have a word for you unconverted people, and I pray God that that word may do you good. and that you may cease to be of a doubtful mind. The original of the text is not easy to explain, for the word translated doubtful is not used anywhere else in the New Testament. It appears to have something to do with meteors, so that the passage might be rendered, neither be ye of meteoric mind. As the word is so singular, there have been a great many different opinions as to its meaning. Some have said that it relates to high things that float above, such as the clouds. If they are right, our text says to us, do not be like the clouds. Do not have cloudy minds blown about with every wind doctrine. Others render it. Do not be like the birds high up in the air, always on the wing, unsettled and uncertain, ever dying about and never at rest, ever flying about and never at rest. Others find an illusion to this ship that is far out upon the sea, and the text says to them, do not always be at sea, tossed up and down, have some anchorage, do not be always drifting to and fro. The word doubtful means so much that I do not expect to be able to tell you all that it means, but shall rather give you a few practical thoughts concerning it. Neither be ye of doubtful mind. That is first. Children of God, be not anxious. Be not tossed up and down by your outward circumstances. If God prospers you, do not ride high as the vessel does when the tide lifts it up. And if he does not prosper you, do not sink down as the vessel does when the tide ebbs away again. Do not be so affected by external things as to get into a state of worry and fretfulness and care and anxiety and distress. Our Savior's injunction means, do not be anxious about your temporal affairs. Be prudent. You have no right to spend the money of other people, nor yet your own in wastefulness. You are to be careful and discreet, for every Christian should remember that he is only a steward, and that he is accountable to his master for whatever he has, and the use he makes of it. But when you have done your best with your little, because you cannot make it more. And when you have done your best to meet your expenses, do not sit down and wring your hands because you cannot lessen them. You cannot make a shilling into a sovereign, but be thankful if you have the shilling. And if you sometimes find that you must live from hand to mouth, recollect that you are not the first child of God who has had his manna every morning, nor the first of God's servants, to have bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening. If this is your case, be not staggered and astonished as though some new thing had happened unto you, and do not begin to fret and fume and worry and trouble yourself about what you cannot help. Can you alter it with all your worrying? Have you, you who are in the habit of worrying and fretting, ever made any profit by doing so? How much a year do you think that anybody would give you for all your fretting? How much has it brought you in? Come, brother, if it is good business, I would like to go into partnership with you. But I should like first to know something about your profits. As I look at your face, I notice that it is careworn and anxious. That does not seem to indicate that the business is a profitable one. If I listen to your speech, I hear you murmuring a great deal instead of praising God. That does not seem to me to be a profitable concern. In fact, as far as I have ascertained, either by my own experience or by the observation of others, I have never discovered that anxiety has comforted anyone, or that it has brought any grist to the mill or any meal to the barrel. Well, if a thing does not pay, what is the good of it? But perhaps you say, I cannot help fretting and worrying. No, my good brother or sister, but do you not think that the Lord can help you to help it, and that your faith in Him, if it were what it ought to be, would soon be the end of your distress and trouble? Have you not found out yet, I have, that the very anxiety which arises through your being in a difficulty unfits you to meet that difficulty? You are in a great hurry to do something or other, and that something or other does more mischief than could possibly have happened if you had kept still, resting in the Lord and waiting patiently for Him. Instead of doing so, you rush this way and that way, and so add to your worries instead of decreasing them. You are like the servant with the basket of eggs on her head, who shakes her head because she is afraid her eggs will fall, and makes them fall by the very process of her trembling. So you go and make 10 troubles in endeavoring to get out of one. There is a text that is very easy to repeat, but not always so easy to obey. Stand still and see the salvation of God. But you want to see your own salvation, so you cannot stand still. There is many a man who has run before God's cloud, and who has been very glad to run or even to crawl back again. Some people are so anxious to carve for themselves that they cut their own fingers. they had better leave the carving in the hands of God and take what he gives them for he knows far better than they do what is good for them and his hand is infinitely wiser than theirs can possibly be Oh, but, says one, I feel that I must be doing something. That doing will just be your undoing unless you stop and consider what God would have you do. The probability is that your action will be unwise and hasty while you are in your present feverish condition. Wait till you get quite cool, brother. You will see your way far better then. At the present moment you are in such a fidget and flutter that you are very apt to mistake your right hand for your left and to put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. You say again that you cannot help being anxious. Then, my dear friend, I must very solemnly ask you what is the difference between you and the man of the world? There is an orphan child, and it is afraid it will not be fed. But you have a Father in heaven, and if you are afraid, surely it is of little use for you to have such a father. Are you not dishonoring his holy name by such conduct as that? Do you not think that others who see you in this condition will say, There is not much power in religion, for these people who profess to be Christians are not comforted by it in their time of trouble, and it will not be of much use to them in the hour of their death? Remember Jeremiah's questions. If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? And if in the land of peace wherein thou trustest they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan? Surely, it is time that we plucked up courage and were not so easily disheartened, for we have worse trials on ahead than any we have yet been called to endure. That is just what I dread, says one. What would you do then, brother? I have been thinking that perhaps I had better turn back. But you have no armor for your back, and the perils of going back are far worse than the perils of going forward. Therefore I charge thee, if thou art indeed a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, to play the man, and let thy faith overcome thy fear. Obey that gracious word, casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you. Do you not believe that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose? You say that you do. Do you not believe that? He sits as sovereign on His throne and ruleth all things well. You say that you do. Do you not believe He loves you with an everlasting love? Do you not know that He spared not His only begotten Son, but delivered Him up for you? And do you think that, after having done so much for you, He will withhold from you anything that is necessary for your well-being? You must not think so, brother, sister. It would be unkind, ungenerous, ungrateful to think so. Therefore, be not of anxious or doubtful mind concerning temporal things. Well, says one, as far as temporal supplies are concerned, I can leave them entirely in the hands of God, but my anxieties arise from quite another form of trouble. There is a Christian brother who is an enmity against me, and he has been spreading an ill report about me, although I have earnestly sought to walk before God in holy fear, and have watched every step that I have taken, and I feel so worried that I do not know what to do. Well, dear friend, there is one rule which you will generally find to be applicable in such a case as yours. When you do not know what to do, do not do anything at all, and usually, if the trouble has arisen through false reports about your own character, the least said the soonest mended. I believe that. If there is anything you want to have well done, you had better do it yourself. But there is one exception to that rule, and that is the matter of defending yourself. No defense is needed for a good man who can say, by the grace of God I am what I am. You may leave that matter of your own character, therefore. And as to the good brother not getting on with you, if you have done anything that has grieved him, confess the wrong. Well, perhaps if I did, he might not meet me in the same spirit. You have nothing to do with that, dear friend. That is his business. And go and do the right thing, and then be no longer anxious about it, but leave the result with God. I hear another brother say, my anxiety has nothing to do with my personal affairs. I am anxious about the cause of God, the church over which I preside, the Bible class that I conduct, the mission field that I try to cultivate. Somehow things do not go as I could wish, and I am greatly concerned that they are not more prosperous. And what are you doing, good friend, to bring about that result? Are you telling the Lord about it and agonizing before Him in prayer? That is right, but if you are telling yourself about it, and your anxiety is confined to yourself, no good will come of that. But sir, all things seem to be going amiss. Yes, and I am constantly hearing that. There are some of our friends who believe that we have fallen upon the worst days that ever have been known in this world. Well, it may be so. I cannot say much about that. But I will say this, my dear friends, that you and I are not of anything like so much importance to the Church of God as we may have imagined, and that the particular department of work which has been entrusted to us, though we ought to think well of it, and to do it well, is not, after all, the hinge upon which the whole universe turns. God managed the world very well before we were born, and he will manage it quite as well when we are dead. His church will not die, for the Lord still liveth, and his spirit still abides in the church, and therefore it must live. But there will be trouble for us if we begin to think that everything depends upon us. Uzzah was well-intentioned, no doubt. Yet God smote him for putting forth his hand to stay the ark of the Lord from falling. Let none of us become guilty of Uzzah's sin. It is our business to serve the Lord with all our heart and soul, just as Martha, with all her energy, sought to prepare a supper for Jesus. But when we begin to be combered about our service, then we may expect the Master to say to us as he did to Martha, Thou art careful and troubled about many things, but one thing is needful, and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her. It is not well that we should be cumbered about our service. No, brethren, the Lord loves his church far better than we do, and he knows far better than we do how to manage our affairs, so we must just do the little we can do and leave the rest to him. May his blessed spirit help us so to get rid of all improper anxieties. Another meaning of the text will make a second division of our subject. Be not ambitious. That is, do not fly high, do not be as the clouds and the meteors that not only move about and are uncertain in their movements, but are also high and lofty. Some people are troubled because they are aiming at amassing great wealth. Years ago, if anybody had told them that they would one day possess what they have already obtained, they would have thought it a wonderful sum, more than sufficient to satisfy all their desires. If somebody had asked them, will you retire from business then and be quite happy and content, they would have answered, oh yes, certainly. Well, they have gathered far more than that already, yet they are as grasping as ever, and they want more and more and more, and they are by no means content with what they have, much as it is. We should all be happier than we are if we were more contented with what is really all that we need, namely having food and raiment, having neither poverty nor riches. Many men have been like that dog in the fable that had the meat in his mouth, But did not eat it because he saw the shadow of it in the water and was so anxious to get that shadow as well as the substance that he already had that The substance that he already had that he lost the peace that he might have eaten Such people are always trying to grasp the shadow Instead of enjoying what God has given to them Let us not be of such a mind as that There are others who are ambitious to attain a higher position. They might be very well content with the kind good friends they have, but there was a lord who once looked at them, and ever since that time they have thought a very wonderful thing to know a real live lord. I have heard of a man who used to boast that the king once spoke to him, and though his majesty only told him to get out of the way. He was very proud of having been addressed by the king, and there are many people who think a great deal of that sort of thing. They are only shillings now, but they are anxious to get among the sovereigns. I have no sympathy with that desire. The best society in the world for me is a company of the Lord's people, and whether they are poor or rich, so long as they are God's saints, I feel myself at home with them. If a brother spoils the Queen's English and makes a great many mistakes in pronunciation, that does not matter to me. The real piety that is in the man, the grace of God that is in his soul, That is the thing which ought to please us. To be proud of our association with the Great Ones of the Earth is both a folly and a sin on the part of any child of God. Sometimes we are ambitious in the service of God beyond what we ought to be. You are doing well in that little chapel, my brother. The place is full, and God is blessing you. But you want a bigger place, or you want to get away from those poor people whom the Lord has helped through your ministry. Possibly my friend you are a Sunday school teacher And you have charge of the infants and they love you and you are fitted for the work Yet you are not content to be an infant class teacher you would like would like a senior class and a great stupid you would make of yourself if you had such a class for you are not adapted for it and It is well always to be seeking to do more for the Lord Jesus Christ, but I would earnestly discourage you from endeavoring to attain to a higher position merely for the sake of occupying it. Dear brethren and sisters, be not ambitious in this sense, for, after all, what is human greatness? Have you ever met with a really great man who would have given a penny for his own greatness? Do you not know that the higher you rise, even in the Church of Christ, the more responsibility you have and the heavier burdens you have to carry? Do you not also know that the way to be really great is to be little, and that he who is greatest of all is the one who has learned to be least of all? He who is chief in the church of Christ is he who serves the church most, and who is willing to go lowest for Christ's sake. Cultivate that kind of greatness as much as you like, but put aside the other, and be not of ambitious mind even in your Lord's service. I meet every now and then people who are, I hope, God's children, but they seem to me to have gotten to a very curious state of mind. They have notions that are not at all according to the realities of everyday life, flighty notions, romantic notions about their own rights and dignities and importance and so on. Ah, dear brethren and sisters, some of us were, in our own estimation, very important individuals, were we not, before the grace of God came unto us? But when the grace of God works in us, we are made to feel that the very lowest and meanest place is a better position than we have any right to take. When we are in our right senses, we never give ourselves those high and mighty airs. A truly humble believer does not say, so and so did not treat me with proper respect. Oh dear me, what is the proper respect to which you and I are entitled? May the Lord preserve us from such a spirit as that. But there are some people, professing Christians too, whose heads are always being filled with that kind of nonsense. They do not seem to have learned that the Spirit of Christ is a spirit of meekness, which teaches us to bear and forbear, to forgive until seventy times seven, to expect to have our rights trampled on, and to be willing to lay them all down for any who please to tread upon them. It is blessed to feel I will be content to take any place so long as I can love others, and do them good by loving them so long as I can love them to Christ, and help them to love Christ, and manifest the love of Christ to them. Brothers and sisters we all need to go to school to our dear lord and master We have never read that he said anything about his rights or about defending his dignity No, he who is the king of kings and lord of lords was a servant of servants when he was here upon earth and truly he that serves most is is the most royal of all. Therefore, let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, and then you will not be anxious or ambitious to be great. A third meaning of the text is this, Be ye not of irresolute mind, without decision of character. If you look at the connection of the passage you will see that this meaning fits in exceedingly well. There are persons in the world who may be described as time servers. The main consideration with them is what they shall eat or what they shall drink or how they shall be clothed. So they are always watching to see which is the best way to go in reference to those matters. As the old proverb has it, they know on which side their bread is buttered, or according to another familiar saying, they are waiting to see which way the cat jumps, and when they have ascertained that, their principles will lead them to jump in that particular direction. Mr.. John Bunyan in the pilgrims progress has well described such persons Mr.. By ends and Mr.. Fair speech and some of us have known their descendants you remember hearing of the water man who got his living by looking one way and pulling another and that water man and has had a great many sons of very much the same character as himself, and they have made a certain kind of progress in the world by that sort of scheming. But you and I, beloved, are not to be of irresolute mind. Every Christian should say, By the grace of God my mind is made up to serve Him, cost what it may. Does my Lord desire me to keep the Sabbath day holy? Sunday is the best day in my particular line of business, but that does not matter to me. My mind is made up to serve the Lord, and whatever it costs will make no difference to me. there is a party to be held tonight and i know that if i go to it i shall have to witness the utmost frivolity and i shall have to be a partaker in what will be to me a great deal sin uncle jonas will be angry if i don't go But I mean to do the right thing, whether Uncle Jonas is pleased or no. That is the way all you who have the love of God shed abroad in your hearts ought to speak. The question, what is right, being answered, you have only to do the right. Whatever happens. This is what our Lord meant when he said to his disciples, neither be ye of doubtful mind. Oh but, say some, we really must look at both sides of that question. There may come a time when we know that a certain course is right, but if we take it we may bring ruin upon ourselves and upon others too. Let me read the fourth and fifth verses of this chapter, and when I have done so, there will be no need for you to say anything. Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more than they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear. Fear him which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell. Yea, I say unto you, fear him. and the eighth and ninth verses. Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of Man also confess before the angels of God. But he that denies me before men shall be denied before the angels of God. Does not that decide you? God grant that it may, and that you may. Henceforth say, I will confess Christ and act for the right and the true, and by the aid of his blessed spirit I will never hesitate to do as he bids me. Through floods and flames if Jesus lead, I'll follow where he goes. Neither will I be of doubtful mind. A fourth meaning of the text is, be ye not at sea so far as your own personal salvation is concerned. Brothers and sisters, there are some who are not saved, who yet imagine that they are. There are many who know nothing of vital godliness, yet who sing as joyfully as the brightest of saints, never suspecting their real condition in the sight of God. Whenever I meet with a man who never has had a doubt about his own condition, I feel inclined to quote to him those lines of Cooper. He has no doubt, who never had a fear, and he that never doubted of his state, he may, perhaps, perhaps he may, too late. Beware all presumption. There are some who even decry anything like self-examination. They cannot bear for us to look for the signs and tokens of the Holy Spirit's work within them. And if we talk about practical holiness, they say that we are getting upon legal ground and turning aside to the beggarly elements of the law. From all such turn away, for they can do you no good. You are exhorted in the scriptures to examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith, and to prove to your own selves. Nay, self-examination alone is not sufficient, and you must cry with the psalmist, Search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in this way everlasting. But on the other hand, there are some who think that doubts and fears are necessary to a child of God. I draw a very grave distinction between doubting the truth of God's promise and questioning whether that promise is made to me. They are two very different things. To doubt the power of the blood of Jesus Christ to cleanse from all sin is one thing, but sometimes to question whether I have really trusted in that blood is quite another. The first is sinful, the second is only proper and discreet. I would advise everyone often to look to the foundation of his faith to see whether he really has believed in Jesus and has in his heart the true life which grows out of such faith. But brethren, there is really no reason in a man saying, whether I am a child of God or not, I am sure I do not know, I sometimes hope I am, and so on. I suppose there are a few men who have not at some time or other suffered pain, but it is not necessary for us to always have the toothache in order to prove that we are really men. And in like manner, there are few Christians who have never had any doubts, yet it is not necessary to be always doubting in order to prove that we are Christians. But as we are glad enough to get rid of pain, so are we to be glad to get rid of doubt by fully trusting our Lord, who is so worthy of our trust. Dear brethren, you can know now whether you are saved or not. At any rate, if I did not know myself to be saved, I would give no sleep to my eyes, nor slumber to my eyelids, till I had found the Christ. If I were a shadow of a doubt about my being washed in the blood of my Savior, were on my soul, I would get to my knees and not rise from them until I did really know that Christ had saved me. If you are in doubt, and yet are content about your condition, I fear that you know nothing at all about the matter. For the true child of God, if he is in any doubt about his salvation, is uneasy till that doubt is gone. He cannot rest till he knows that he is saved. And after all, that is not a very difficult thing to know. For we are told over and over again in this blessed book that he that believeth in Christ is not condemned but hath everlasting life. If you have believed in him, you are not condemned, you have his own word for it. He who trusts to Jesus only builds on a sure foundation. So if you are trusting in him, you may have the full assurance that you have passed from death into life and shall never come into condemnation. Do not, brother, go limping along all your life when you might run in the way of God's commandments. A good old minister, my acquaintance, when people used to say to him that they hoped and hoped and never got any further than that, was in the habit of replying, you are always hoping and hopping. I hope you will learn to run one of these days, to run without weariness in the ways of God. The last thing I have to do is to bid all here present who have not believed in the Lord Jesus Christ to do so at once. My dear friends, my text says, neither be ye of doubtful mind, but you cannot help being of doubtful mind while you remain as you are. And I really wish that your conscience would trouble you even more than it now does, that your uneasiness might become even greater, and your unrest yet more unrestful. Look at yourself, my dear hearer. You have not believed in Christ, so you are in debt to divine justice, and you are hopelessly bankrupt, for you cannot meet one in a million of the claims that are recorded against you. How can you rest as long as you are thus indebted to God? You are a prisoner, too. When Marshal Bazaine had many of the comforts of life on the Isle of Saint Marguerite, off the coast of the south of France, he could not rest till he had regained his liberty, and I marvel how You can be so happy, even with the joys of this world, while you are without the great blessing of spiritual liberty. I wish you felt that you could not rest until you had become emancipated from the bondage of sin and been made the Lord's freeman. How would you like to be in a condemned cell, and not to know when your execution was to take place? I am sure that you would pity any such poor creature, whatever his crime, if you could see him under such circumstances. Perhaps you say that you are living in a wide world and not in prison. Yet you are condemned already. It is said of the old Roman Empire that if a man once broke the law, the whole world was a prison for him. For Caesar had almost universal sway, and God sees you wherever you are and everywhere you are in the condemned cell. And perhaps before the sun shall rise again, your execution will have taken place. I have been told that, some years ago, there went into the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussaud's exhibition a young gentleman who was foolish enough to put himself under the guillotine in the place which had been occupied by criminals And as he lay there with his bare neck exposed to the terrible knife, he was so struck with horror that he was unable to move. And people who went by thought he was one of the waxwork fixtures. And he could not stir until someone took him away. And oh, if you did but know where you readily are with that dreadful axe of divine justice just above your head, you might well be paralyzed with horror. Only let your breath fail, or your pulse stop, and down it descends to your utter destruction. But alas, you are insensible to these things. May the Spirit of God arouse you. May He make you feel your true position, and then, I am sure, you will not be content to remain a moment longer of a doubtful and undecided mind. Hearken, my friend. That sin of thine can be forgiven, for Jesus died for sinners. That heart of thine can be renewed by grace, for Jesus lives again. You can be delivered from the wrath to come, for Jesus has gone up on high to plead for just such sinners as you are. What are you to do in order that you may have Christ as your Savior? Why, as the hymn says, only trust Him, only trust Him, only trust Him now. Still Waters Revival Books is now located at PuritanDownloads.com. 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