July 25
Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook
NOTHING TO ALARM US
"But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in
thy lot at the end of the days." Dan. 12:13
We cannot understand all the prophecies, but yet we regard them with
pleasure, and not with dismay. There can be nothing in the Father's
decree which should justly alarm His child. Though the abomination of
desolation be set up, yet the true believer shall not be defiled;
rather shall he be purified, and made white, and tried. Though the
earth be burned up, no smell of fire shall come upon the chosen. Amid
the crash of matter, and the wreck of worlds, the Lord Jehovah will
preserve His own.
Calmly resolute in duty, brave in conflict, patient in suffering, let
us go our way, keeping to our road, and neither swerving from it nor
loitering in it. The end will come; let us go our way till it does.
Rest will be ours. All other things swing to and fro, but our
foundation standeth sure. God rests in His love, and, therefore, we
rest in it. Our peace is, and ever shall be, like a river. A lot in the
heavenly Canaan is ours, and we shall stand in it, come what may. The
God of Daniel will give a worthy portion to all who dare to be decided
for truth and holiness as Daniel was. No den of lions shall deprive us
of our sure inheritance.