Faith’s
Check Book
By Charles
H. Spurgeon
"THROUGH"
NOT ENGULFED
"When
thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers,
they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt
not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee" Isaiah 43:2
Bridge there
is none: we must go through the waters, and feel the rush of the rivers. The
presence of God in the flood is better than a ferry-boat. Tried we must be, but
triumphant we shall be; for Jehovah Himself, who is mightier than many waters,
shall be with us. Whenever else He may be away from His people, the Lord will
surely be with them in difficulties and dangers. The sorrows of life may rise
to an extraordinary height, but the Lord is equal to every occasion.
The enemies
of God can put in our way dangers of their own making, namely, persecutions and
cruel mockings, which are like a burning fiery furnace. What then? We shall
walk through the fires. God being with us, we shall not be burned; nay, not
even the smell of fire shall remain upon us.
Oh, the
wonderful security of the heaven-born and heaven-bound pilgrim! Floods cannot
drown him, nor fires burn him. Thy presence, O Lord, is the protection of thy
saints from the varied perils of the road. Behold, in faith I commit myself
unto thee, and my spirit enters into rest.
Thought’s
for the Quiet Hour
He that
watereth shall be watered also himself
Prov. 11:25
The
effective life and the receptive life are one. No sweep of arm that does some
work for God but harvests also some more of the truth of God, and sweeps it
into the treasury of life.
Phillips
Brooks
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