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If you are really a Christian and are unaware of the awful unbelief that lurks in the human breast then you need to get one good look at Christ. How submissive He was to the will of the Father. How eagerly He went toward Calvary. "Not My will, but Thine, be done" was the motto of His life. Get one glimpse, I say, of Christ and you will not be talking about your faith. You will be on your face before God, crying out with this good man in our text: "Help Thou mine unbelief."
Notice this man came to the right person: "Help Thou." He had learned something many Christians go for years without learning, and that is simply that you cannot take one step in the Christian life without Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ said: "Without Me ye can do '''nothing'''." He meant just that. Absolutely '''nothing'''. You can't even think clean thoughts without Jesus Christ. Not one single, solitary good thing can you ever do without Him. Don't forget that. This man, early in his experience, learned it and I think it must have made him a useful man of God.
"Help, Thou." He came to God. We like to have you come to us with problems, but it is better to go to God with them. We are to share one another's burdens, but better get directly to God. Confession to one another is good, but better to go to God. "Help Thou" has never been very popular, but you show me a young person who is going on for God and