April 22

Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook

POWER TO RAISE

   "The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are
   bowed down" Ps. 146:8

   Am I bowed down? Then let me urge this word of grace before the Lord.
   It is His way, His custom, His promise, His delight, to raise up them
   that are bowed down. Is it a sense of sin, and a consequent depression
   of spirit, which now distresses me? Then the work of Jesus is, in this
   case, made and provided to raise me up into rest. O Lord, raise me, for
   thy mercy's sake!

   Is it a sad bereavement, or a great fall in circumstances? Here again
   the Comforter has undertaken to console. What a mercy for us that one
   person of the Sacred Trinity should become the Comforter! This work
   will be well done, since such a glorious One has made it His peculiar
   care.

   Some are so bowed down that only Jesus can loose them from their
   infirmity, but He can, and He will, do it. He can raise us up to
   health, to hope, to happiness. He has often done so under former
   trials, and He is the same Saviour, and will repeat His deeds of
   lovingkindness. We who are today bowed down and sorrowful, shall yet be
   set on high, and those who now mock at us shall be greatly ashamed.
   What an honor to be raised up by the Lord! It is worth while to be
   bowed down that we may experience His upraising power.