In his book, Spiritu.al Depression, Martyn Lloyd-Jones writes: Doubts are not incompatible with faith. . . . Some people seem to think that once you become a Christian you should never be assailed by doubts. But that is not so, Peter still had faith (as he panicked in the storm in Matthew 14) . ...
His faith was not gone, but because it was weak, doubt mastered him and overwhelmed him and he was shaken. . . . Doubts will attack us, but that does not mean that we are to allow them to master us.
3 1C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: Macmillan Co., 1952), 109. 2 Warren W.
Wiersbe, Listening to the Giants (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1980), 115 -116. 3D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1965), 154.
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The point
Martyn Lloyd-Jones teaches that doubts attack faith but need not master it; Peter's weak faith was overwhelmed by doubt in the storm, yet faith persisted.