Monday, May 14, 2012
Faith's Check Book, Daily
Entry
C. H. Spurgeon
Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath
torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. (Hosea 6:1)
It is the
Lord's way to tear before He heals. This is the honest love of His heart and
the sure surgery of His hand. He also bruises before He binds up, or else it
would be uncertain work. The law comes before the gospel, the sense of need
before the supply of it. Is the reader now under the convincing, crushing hand
of the Spirit? Has he received the spirit of bondage again to fear? This is a
salutary preliminary to real gospel healing and binding up.
Do not
despair, dear heart, but come to the Lord with all thy jagged wounds, black
bruises, and running sores. He alone can heal, and He delights to do it. It is
our Lord's office to bind up the brokenhearted, and He is gloriously at home at
it. Let us not linger but at once return unto the Lord from whom we have gone
astray. Let us show Him our gaping wounds and beseech him to know His own work
and complete it. Will a surgeon make an incision and then leave his patient to
bleed to death? Will the Lord pull down our old house and then refuse to build
us a better one? Dost Thou ever wantonly increase the misery of poor anxious
souls? That be far from Thee, O Lord.
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