Saturday, May 19, 2012
Faith's Check Book, Daily
Entry
C. H. Spurgeon
We May Speak for God
Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou return, then
will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth
the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth. (Jeremiah 15:19)
Poor
Jeremiah! Yet why do we say so? The weeping prophet was one of the choicest
servants of God and honored by Him above many. He was hated for speaking the
truth. The word which was so sweet to him was bitter to his hearers, yet he was
accepted of his Lord. He was commanded to abide in his faithfulness, and then
the Lord would continue to speak through him. He was to deal boldly and
truthfully with men and perform the Lord's winnowing work upon the professors
of his day, and then the Lord gave him this word: "Thou shalt be as my
mouth."
What an
honor! Should not every preacher, yea, every believer, covet it? For God to
speak by us, what a marvel! We shall speak sure, pure truth; and we shall speak
it with power. Our word shall not return void; it shall be a blessing to those
who receive it, and those who refuse it shall do so at their peril. Our lips
shall feed many. We shall arouse the sleeping and call the dead to life.
O dear
reader, pray that it may be so with all the sent servants of our Lord.
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