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Spurgeon's Morning & Evening Devotions
Morning, June 22
"Tell me I pray thee wherein thy great strength lieth." - Judges 16:6
Where lies the secret strength of faith? It lies in the food it feeds on; for
faith studies what the promise is-an emanation of divine grace, an overflowing
of the great heart of God; and faith says, "My God could not have given this
promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain his Word
will be fulfilled." Then faith thinketh, "Who gave this promise?" It
considereth not so much its greatness, as, "Who is the author of it?" She
remembers that it is God who cannot lie-God omnipotent, God immutable; and
therefore concludeth that the promise must be fulfilled; and forward she
advances in this firm conviction. She remembereth, why the promise was
given,-namely, for God's glory,
and she feels perfectly sure that God's glory is safe, that he will never stain
his own escutcheon, nor mar the lustre of his own crown; and therefore the
promise must and will stand.
Then faith also considereth the amazing work of Christ as being a clear proof
of the Father's intention to fulfil his word. "He that spared not his own Son,
but freely delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely
give us all things?"
Moreover faith looks back upon the past, for her battles have strengthened her,
and her victories have given her courage. She remembers that God never has
failed her; nay, that he never did once fail any of his children.
She recollecteth times of great peril, when deliverance came; hours of awful
need, when as her day her strength was found, and she cries, "No, I never will
be led to think that he can change and leave his servant now. Hitherto the Lord
hath helped me, and he will help me still. " Thus faith views each promise in
its connection with the promise-giver, and, because she does so, can with
assurance say, "Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my
life!"
Evening, June 22
"Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on
thee do I wait all the day." - Psalm 25:5
When the believer has begun with trembling feet to walk in the way of the Lord,
he asks to be still led onward like a little child upheld by its parent's
helping hand, and he craves to be further instructed in the alphabet of truth.
Experimental teaching is the burden of this prayer. David knew much, but he
felt his ignorance, and desired to be still in the Lord's school: four times
over in two verses he applies for a scholarship in the college of grace.
It were well for many professors if instead of following their own devices, and
cutting out new paths of thought for themselves, they would enquire for the
good old ways of God's own truth, and beseech the Holy Ghost to give them
sanctified understandings and
teachable spirits. "For thou art the God of my salvation." The Three-One
Jehovah is the Author and Perfecter of salvation to his people.
Reader, is he the God of your salvation? Do you find in the Father's election,
in the Son's atonement, and in the Spirit's quickening, all the grounds of your
eternal hopes? If so, you may use this as an argument for obtaining further
blessings; if the Lord has ordained to save you, surely he will not refuse to
instruct you in his ways. It is a happy thing when we can address the Lord with
the confidence which David here manifests, it gives
us great power in prayer, and comfort in trial. "On thee do I wait all the day."
Patience is the fair handmaid and daughter of faith; we cheerfully wait when we
are certain that we shall not wait in vain. It is our duty and our privilege to
wait upon the Lord in service, in worship, in expectancy, in trust all the days
of our life. Our faith will be tried faith, and if it be of the true kind, it
will bear continued trial without yielding. We shall not
grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously he
once waited for us.
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