June 5
Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook
IS THERE A DIFFERENCE?
"But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his
tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the Lord doth
put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel." Exod. 11:7
What! Has God power over the tongues of dogs? Can he keep curs from
barking? Yes, it is even so. He can even prevent an Egyptian dog from
worrying one of the lambs of Israel's flock. Doth God silence dogs, and
doggish ones among men, and the great dog at hell's gate? Then let us
move on our way without fear.
If He lets dogs move their tongues, yet He can stop their teeth. They
may make a dreadful noise, and still do us no real harm. Yet, how sweet
is quiet! How delightful to move about among enemies, and perceive that
God maketh them to be at peace with us! Like Daniel in the den of
lions, we are unhurt amid destroyers.
Oh, that today, this word of the Lord to Israel might be true to me!
Does the dog worry me? I will tell my Lord about him. Lord, he does not
care for my pleadings; do thou speak the word of power, and he must lie
down. Give me peace, O my God, and let me see thy hand so distinctly in
it that I may most clearly perceive the difference which thy grace has
made between me and the ungodly!