"How long will it be ere they believe me?" (Numbers 14: 11).
Strive, with all diligence, to keep out unbelief. Among hateful things it is the most to be abhorred. Its injurious nature is so venomous that he who exercises it, and he on whom it is exercised, are both hurt by it. In your case, believer, it is most wicked, for the mercies of your Lord in the past increase your guilt in doubting Him now. It is very cruel for a well-beloved wife to mistrust a kind and faithful husband. The sin is needless, foolish, and unwarranted. Jesus has never given the slightest ground for suspicion, and it is hard to be doubted by those to whom our conduct is uniformly affectionate and true. This is crowning His head with thorns of the sharpest kind. Jesus is the Son of the Highest and has unbounded wealth. It is shameful to doubt Omnipotence and distrust All Sufficiency. The cattle on a thousand hills will suffice for our most hungry feeding, and the granaries of heaven are not likely to be emptied by our eating. If Christ were only a cistern, we might soon exhaust His fullness; but who can drain a fountain? Myriad spirits have drawn their supplies from Him, and not one of them has murmured at the scantiness of His resources. Put away this lying traitor unbelief, for his only errand is to cut the bonds of communion and make us mourn an absent Savior.