Snares of Unbelief

Beloved fellow Christians, let us beware of the snares of unbelief, whoever they may be presented by, or in whatever shape. Let the Scripture be the sole and exclusive authority to our hearts and consciences. What can be worse than not to receive implicitly what God has written? Let us watch against the Christ-dishonoring, soul-damaging ways of false humility and doubt. When Scripture gives us the plainest possible statement, what but unbelief could suggest the question: What does it mean?
In these days of growing rationalism, we need to guard against every insinuation which refuses the direct and absolute authority of the written Word of God. Let us not take lower ground than it gives us, notwithstanding the scorn of unbelief, and charge of presumption that skeptical minds may intimate.
"Let God be true, but every man a liar" was, and still is, the motto of believing souls. To have "strange gods" among us—the heart set on things of earth—and to be faithfully serving the Lord, is simply impossible. To be consciously and happily one with Christ, and to be practically taking a place as one with men in the flesh, cannot be. No man can serve two masters. "Ye cannot serve God and mammon." If the world, and men in the flesh are worthy, or if the interests of self in your estimation have the first place, let it be so, and honestly abandon Christian ground saying, "Baal is my god.”
But if Christ be worthy, if He who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood has, in our estimation, most justly the first and only claim, then let us serve Him only. Let us follow Him closely and walk worthy of the Lord who has called us unto His kingdom and glory.
H. H. Snell