April 4
Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook
GOD'S HORNETS
"And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite,
the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee" Exod. 23:28
What the hornets were we need not consider. They were God's own army,
which He sent before His people to sting their enemies, and render
Israel's conquest easy. Our God by His own chosen means will fight for
His people, and gall their foes, before they come into the actual
battle. Often He confounds the adversaries of truth by methods in which
reformers themselves have no hand. The air is full of mysterious
influences which harass Israel's foes. We read in the Apocalypse that
"the earth helped the woman.
Let us never fear. The stars in their courses fight against the enemies
of our souls. Oftentimes when we march to the conflict we find no host
to contend with. "The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your
peace." God's hornets can do more than our weapons. We could never
dream of the victory being won by such means as Jehovah will use. We
must obey our marching orders and go forth to the conquest of the
nations for Jesus, and we shall find that the Lord has gone before us,
and prepared the way; so that in the end we shall joyfully confess,
"His own right hand, and his holy arm, have gotten him the victory."