Faith’s Check Book
By Charles H. Spurgeon
GODLY STABILITY
"And I will make thee unto this people a fenced brazen
wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against
thee; for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee, saith the Lord"
Jeremiah 15:20
Stability in the fear and faith of God will make a man like
a wall of brass, which no one can batter down or break. Only the Lord can make
such; but we need such men in the church, and in the world, but specially in
the pulpit.
Against uncompromising men of truth this age of shams will
fight tooth and nail. Nothing seems to offend Satan and his seed like decision.
They attack holy firmness even as the Assyrians besieged fenced cities. The joy
is that they cannot prevail against those whom God has made strong in His
strength. Carried about with every wind of doctrine, others only need to be
blown upon, and away they go; but those who love the doctrines of grace,
because they possess the grace of the doctrines, stand like rocks in the midst
of raging seas.
Whence this stability? "I am with thee, saith the
Lord": that is the true answer. Jehovah will save and deliver faithful
souls from all the assaults of the adversary. Hosts are against us, but the
Lord of hosts is with us. We dare not budge an inch; for the Lord Himself holds
us in our place, and there we will abide for ever.
Thought’s for the Quiet Hour
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your
good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven
Matthew 5:16
They say the world has an eagle eye for anything
inconsistent, an eye sharp to discover the vagaries and inconsistencies in the
defaulty and the unworthy. It has an eagle eye; but the eagle winks before the
sun, and the burning iris of its eye shrinks abashed before the unsullied
purity of noon. Let your light so shine before men, that others, awed and
charmed by the consistency of your godly life, may come to enquire, and to say
you have been with Jesus.
Punshon
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