Sola Fide & Your Comfort

Christian, take comfort in Christ’s ability to save and not in your ability to believe. J. Gresham Machen says:

“…salvation by faith does not mean that we are saved because we keep ourselves at every moment in an ideally perfect attitude of confidence in Christ. No, we are saved because having once been united to Christ by faith, we are his forever. Calvinism is a very comforting doctrine indeed. Without its comfort, I think I should have perished long ago in the castle of Giant Despair.”