Putting Feeling in Faith's Stead

“If ever a soul rested its hopes on shifting sands, he does who puts feeling in faith’s stead. Nothing is less stable; nothing so subject to every wind that blows as a man’s emotions. Until they are steadied by faith they have no more stability than the mercury in thermometers. I want to tell you, beloved, there is something better than that for the Christian. God never meant to have His children lead a spiritual fever and ague existence, shivering one day and scorching the next. There is no soul-health in that. It is Satan’s scheme to settle you on such sand hills. God offers you the eternal Rock. God has laid for you a sure foundation in His eternal Word. Build on that, and the waves of unbelief will beat themselves into harmless foam at your feet, and you can stand in unshaken assurance, proving the ‘things not seen’”

​(William Bell Riley, commenting on Hebrews 11).

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