John 16:31-32

John 16:31-32. Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone.

Whenever there is any boasting upon your lips, even though you may think that you can rightly say, "Now we are sure," stop a bit, dear friends, stop a bit. We have not any of us all the good we think we have; nay, they who think themselves perfect think the most amiss. They are altogether mistaken, and there is some latent unbelief even where faith is strongest. Christ still asks, "Do ye now believe?" You have only to be sufficiently tried, and to be tempted long enough, and in that very point where you think you are strongest you will fail. "Now are we sure," say the confident disciples. "Ah!" says Christ, "do ye now believe? Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone."