Bedside Watchman LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED

Last Updated on : October 11, 2014

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October 20th -- John 14

LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED

THERE is comfort in the confident words of a strong man: and there is assurance in the counsel, "Let not your hearts be troubled." But Jesus goes further and tells them how they might overcome their troubled thoughts. There was a foundation for peace in human lives, away from which there is only unrest and disquiet. The foundation was faith; faith in God, and then faith in him. The disciples had faith -- but it needed to be fostered and strengthened. Belief in God must be accompanied by belief in him, the coupling together of God and himself as the objects of faith carrying an implicit claim that his words and his counsel had divine authority.The words had great value then, but their importance would increase as the days passed by and they took his gospel to the world and found opposition and difficulty such as he had encountered. The memory of his words, spoken during the crisis of his life, would nerve them to endure with fortitude and courage. They have not lost their value yet. In the midst of difficulty, and in a world that has ceased to believe, when doubt and despair stalk hand in hand, the man of faith can still hear the words of Jesus, and believing find heart's ease.

JOHN CARTER, The Gospel of John, pages 153-154