One cannot conceive of anything that will cripple faith and put the believer in bondage more quickly and surely than underestimating what He is, and what we are in Him.
Along with that will come an underestimation of the Word.
We will say right out, "Oh, I believe the Bible is the Word of God." And yet we turn to the arm of flesh for help.
And when we pray, we do not come with that quiet assurance that we would if some banker had given us his word in regard to our financial standing at the bank.
This is an unconscious underestimation of the Word, and it is an unconscious underestimation of the integrity of the Master Himself, who is the Author of this Word.
This leads to weakness, to doubt and fear.
It makes a vacillating type of faith.
We become what James calls "a double-minded man that is unstable in all his ways."
What will change it?
When we realize what He has done for us in His great Substitution and in the New Creation.
(to be continued)
--E.W. Kenyon
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