When Coldness And Indifference Hold You

    

There are times when every believer experiences spiritual declension, when coldness and indifference seem to hold your heart in utter deadness. The worship of God seems to be an impossible dream. Prayer is a burden. The reading of the Scriptures seems to give no profit to your soul. You attend the house of worship, but the hymns strike no cord in your heart; the fellowship of God's saints seems beyond you;and the preaching of the gospel does not rouse your soul or enter your heart. EVERY BELIEVER has times of languishing when he has to say, "I sleep, but my heart waketh." When such times of languishing come, what are we to do? The flesh becomes easy prey for satan. The old devil then puts on the mask of holiness and humility and says, "Do not be a hypocrite.You know that you are not what you ought to be. You are not worthy to pray,or sing, or worship with God's saints. Until you improve just stay home. Stop pretending. Stop playing church." DO NOT LISTEN TO THE SERPENT! Christ is the Savior of sinners. Your sinnerhood is the only grounds upon which you have any right to approach and lay hold of him. The thing to do when your heart and soul seem to be utterly without life before God is to trust Christ as a sinner.In the teeth of your sins, trust his blood and righteousness. Soon you will again be rejoicing as a sinner saved by grace!

 

 

Don Fortner