Charles Spurgeon Commentary John 14

Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in me.

There is no cure for heart-trouble but heart-trust. You believe in God,—you do trust in Divine Providence, now trust in the Savior's great atonement. You have come close to God already, come closer still to the Incarnate God, the Lord Jesus Christ; hear him say to you, You believe in God, believe also in me. Your faith already deals with some things; now let it deal with more things.

Your past troubles have been endured by faith; now endure the present in the same way.

Let not your heart be troubled: you believe in God, believe also in me.

Here is a troubled company of disciples, very much cast down, so their Divine Master, full of infinite tenderness, talks to them in this gentle manner, "Let not your heart be troubled." He does not like to see them troubled; and when they are, he is troubled also.

Our Lord here prescribes faith as the only remedy for heart trouble.

If you, poor troubled soul, can believe, you will stop fretting.

Twice our Lord uses the word "believe." He seems to say to his disciples, "Take another dose of faith; it will take away from you this faintness of heart from which you are suffering: you believe in God, believe also in me."

And then he seeks to make them forget their heart trouble by talking most sweetly to them about his Father, and his Father's dwelling-place. It is a great thing to divert the mind, when it is troubled, from that which bores into it and threatens to destroy it.

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

I think our Saviour meant to say, and really did say, "If you believe in God, you are believing in me; and if you believe in me, you are believing in God; for there is such a perfect unity between us that you need not, when I die, make any distinction between me and God, but still believe in me as you believe in the Father."

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

You will be troubled; that cannot be helped. But let not your heart be troubled. You are like a ship, and all the water in the sea cannot hurt a ship if it is kept outside of it.

Let not your heart be troubled. How are you to prevent it? Faith is the remedy. You believe already; believe more. Ye believe in God; believe also in me.

You have a trust in the infinite power of God; believe in me as the incarnation of his infinite love.

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

"You have believed in God, whom you have never seen. Believe in me when you cannot see me. Believe that I still am – that I still am working for your good. You have believed in God, though he has not manifested himself to you in his person as I have done. Now when I am no longer seen by you, believe in me as you believe in the invisible God." It is well for us to have the same faith in Christ that we have in the everlasting God. This is the cure for the heart trouble.

You are sure to be troubled in heart unless you have much faith in God. Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.