Aug. 2

Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook

SPEAK WHAT HE TEACHES

   "Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what
   thou shalt say" Exod. 4:12

   Many a true servant of the Lord is slow of speech, and when called upon
   to plead for his Lord, he is in great confusion lest he should spoil a
   good cause by his bad advocacy. In such a case it is well to remember
   that the Lord made the tongue which is so slow, and we must take care
   that we do not blame our Maker. It may be that a slow tongue is not so
   great an evil as a fast one, and fewness of words may be more of a
   blessing than floods of verbiage. It is also quite certain that real
   saving power does not lie in human rhetoric, with its tropes, and
   pretty phrases, and grand displays. Lack of fluency is not so great a
   lack as it looks.

   If God be with our mouth, and with our mind, we shall have something
   better than the sounding brass of eloquence, or the tinkling cymbal of
   persuasion. God's teaching is wisdom; His presence is power. Pharaoh
   had more reason to be afraid of stammering Moses than of the most
   fluent talker in Egypt; for what he said had power in it; he spoke
   plagues and deaths. If the Lord be with us in our natural weakness we
   shall be girt with supernatural power. Therefore, let us speak for
   Jesus boldly, as we ought to speak.