Struggling to Believe

This entry from Augustine's Confessions is so helpful in understanding a person's journey to putting their full and complete trust / confidence in Christ, and the message of the Bible, to save them from their sins.

I've edited the full entry, so if you'd like to read the whole thing click here, and scroll down to chapter IV, paragraph 6. Augustine wrote:

"I was also glad that the old Scriptures of the Law and the Prophets were laid before me to be read, not now with an eye to what had seemed absurd in them when formerly I censured Your holy ones for thinking thus, when they actually did not think in that way. ... I found nothing in [Ambrose'] teachings that offended me, though I could not yet know for certain whether what he taught was true. For all this time I restrained my heart from assenting to anything, fearing to fall headlong into error. Instead, by this hanging in suspense, I was being strangled. For my desire was to be as certain of invisible things as I was that seven and three are ten. I was not so deranged as to believe that this could not be comprehended [like so many are today], but my desire was to have other things as clear as this ... But, just as it happens that a man who has tried a bad physician fears to trust himself with a good one, so it was with the health of my soul, which could not be healed except by believing. But lest it should believe falsehoods, it refused to be cured, resisting Your hand, who has prepared for us the medicines of faith and applied them to the maladies of the whole world, and endowed them with such great efficacy."

Think deeply about his experience, and how it relates to those you're trying to see the truth of the gospel.