March 7
Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook
FROM FETTERS FREE
"The Lord looseth the prisoners" Ps. 146:7
He has done it. Remember Joseph, Israel in Egypt, Manasseh, Jeremiah,
Peter, and many others. He can do it still. He breaks the bars of brass
with a word, and snaps the fetters of iron with a look. He is doing it.
In a thousand places troubled ones are coming forth to light and
enlargement. Jesus still proclaims the opening of the prison to them
that are bound. At this moment doors are flying back and fetters are
dropping to the ground.
He will delight to set you free, dear friend, if at this time you are
mourning because of sorrow, doubt, and fear. It will be a joy to Jesus
to give you liberty. It will give Him as great a pleasure to loose you
as it will be a pleasure to you to be loosed. No, you have not to snap
the iron band: the Lord Himself will do it. Only trust Him, and He will
be your Emancipator. Believe in Him in spite of the stone walls, or the
manacles of iron. Satan cannot hold you, sin cannot enchain you, even
despair cannot bind you, if you will now believe in the Lord Jesus, and
in the freeness of His grace, and the fullness of His power to save.
Defy the enemy, and let the word now before you be your song of
deliverance: "Jehovah looseth the prisoners."