The Clue Of The Maze A Voice Lifted Up For Honest Faith - "He who trusts his soul to Jesus has found the clue to the maze!" Modern unbelief is so short of the quality that it seized the label, and has advertised itself as HONEST doubt. It was in dire need of a character. We lift our feeble voice on behalf of HONEST FAITH. By Charles Haddon Spurgeon PROFOUND THOUGHTS ON FAITH AND DOUBT

Read Sermons and Devotions Daily on GospelWeb

FAITH'S CHANGE A RADICAL ONE.

Trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ for complete salvation, and being assured that he is thereby saved, the believer comes under a new master-principle. Before he knew himself to be redeemed by Christ he labored for his own salvation; that is to say, his every embryo virtue had self for its aim. He acted or abstained from action, was just or generous, praised God or prayed to him, with the one design of benefiting himself. How little of the essence of virtue could be found in deeds proceeding from such a motive! Yet from that motive the worker could not be set free with any safety, unless by saving him the Lord could lift him beyond need of seeking selfsalvation, and then could cause him to pursue things noble and benevolent from pure love of God and man. It is natural that while a man is in danger he should look mainly to his own safety; hence nature itself is at first the enemy of unselfish virtue. But when the man's best interests are graciously secured, and he is set above all hazard, he looks beyond himself to his Deliverer, and regulates his life not by selfishness but by GRATITUDE. This is a grand uplifting of our manhood from servile fear to filial love. No mere animalism will ever understand a, passion like that of Xavier —

"My God, I love thee; not because
I hope for heaven thereby,
Nor yet because who love thee not
Must burn eternally.
"Thou, O my Jesus, thou didst me
Upon the cross embrace;
For me didst bear the nails, and spear,
And manifold disgrace

"And griefs, and torments numberless,
And sweat of agony;
Yea, death itself; and all for me
Who was thine enemy.
"Then why, O Blessed Jesu Christ,
Should I not love thee well ?
Not for the hope of winning heaven,
Nor of escaping hell."

In grateful love we have a fulcrum for the moral lever; a principle noble and elevating, potent to produce works of infinitely more value than any which can come from the slavish dread of punishment, or the mercenary hope of reward.