Leave No Room For Doubt

The fruitfulness in Christian practice will not only bring glory to God, but will supply the best evidence to my own heart that I am a real disciple of Christ.

Assurance of my own interest in Christ, and my consequent eternal safety, is one of the highest privileges in my Christian faith.  

• To be always doubting and fearing is miserable work.  
• Nothing is worse than suspense in any matter of importance, and above all in the matter of my soul.  
• If I would know one of the best receipts for obtaining assurance, I should diligently study Christ's words, Herein is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; showing yourselves to be my disciples.  

Let me strive to bear much fruit in my life, my habits, my temper, my words, and my works. 

• So doing I shall feel the "witness of the Spirit" in my heart, and give abundant proof that I am a living branch of the true Vine.  
• I shall find inward evidence in my own soul that I am a child of God, 
• and shall supply the world with outward evidence that cannot be disputed.  
• I shall leave no room for doubt that I am a disciple.

Would I know 

• why so many professing Christians have little comfort in their faith, 
• and go fearing and doubting along the road to heaven?  
• The question receives a solution in the saying of my Lord I am now considering.  

I do not want to be content with a little Christianity, 

• and a little fruit of the Spirit, and not labor to be holy in all of life.  
• I do not want to be left enjoying little peace, feeling little hope, and leaving behind me little evidence.  
• The fault would lie only with myself.  

God has linked together holiness and happiness; and what God has joined together I must not think to put asunder.

Adapted Excerpt From The Gospel of John by J.C. Ryle