“Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.” Brethren, not only in the flesh, but in the Lord. An unbelieving heart was the cause of their departing from God, and it will produce the same ruin in us. “Parting is such sweet sorrow,” says Shakespeare, but there is no “sweet” to it, if it is departing from God—it’s just sorrow.
Departure from God exists first in the heart then manifests itself in the life. Indulging in unbelief in any form or subject is the one great source of all alienation from God. To distrust God is to depart from Him.
We feel it is of little consequence whether we have faith or not, provided our conduct is right. But you can have a clean life and behind it hide an evil heart of unbelief. Only the man who lives a life of faith in God is safe, and none else are safe but him.
Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins. (Thomas Brooks, Puritan)
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