May 20

Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook

WE DARE NOT DOUBT

   "I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will
   break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron"
   Isa. 45:2

   This was for Cyrus; but it is evermore the heritage of all the Lord's
   own spiritual servants. Only let us go forward by faith, and our way
   will be cleared for us. Crooks and turns of human craft and Satanic
   subtlety shall be straightened for us; we shall not need to track their
   devious windings. The gates of brass shall be broken, and the iron bars
   which fastened them shall be cut asunder. We shall not need the
   battering ram nor the crowbar: the Lord Himself will do the impossible
   for us, and the unexpected shall be a fact.

   Let us not sit down in coward fear. Let us press onward in the path of
   duty; for the Lord hath said it, "I will go before thee." Ours not to
   reason why; ours but to dare and dash forward. It is the Lord's work,
   and He will enable us to do it: all impediments must yield before Him.
   Hath He not said, "I will break in pieces the gates of brass?" What can
   hinder His purpose or balk His decrees? Those who serve God have
   infinite resources. The way is clear to faith though barred to human
   strength. When Jehovah says, "I will," as He does twice in this
   promise, we dare not doubt.