Faith’s Check Book
By Charles H. Spurgeon
WORLD CONCORD
"And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and
their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more." Isaiah 2:4
Oh, that these happy times were come! At present the nations
are heavily armed, and are inventing weapons more and more terrible, as if the
chief end of man could only be answered by destroying myriads of his fellows.
Yet peace will prevail one day; yes, and so prevail that the instruments of
destruction shall be beaten into other shapes and used for better purposes.
How will this come about? By trade? By civilization? By
arbitration? We do not believe it. Past experience forbids our trusting to
means so feeble. Peace will be established only by the reign of the Prince of
Peace. He must teach the people by His Spirit, renew their hears by His grace,
and reign over them by His supreme power, and then will they cease to wound and
kill. Man is a monster when once his blood is up, and only the Lord Jesus can
turn this lion into a lamb. By changing man’s heart, his blood-thirsty passions
are removed. Let every reader of this book of promises offer special prayer
today to the Lord and Giver of Peace, that He would speedily put an end to war,
and establish concord over the whole world.
Thought’s for the Quiet Hour
Now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest
of these is love
1 Cor. 13:13 (R.V.)
Love is the greatest thing that God can give us: for Himself
is Love; and it is the greatest thing we can give to God: for it will give
ourselves, and carry with it all that is ours.
Jeremy Taylor
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