Sept. 3

Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook

OUT OF SPIRITUAL DEATH

   "And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves,
   O my people, and brought you up out of your graves" Ezek. 37:13

   Indeed it must be so: those who receive life from the dead are sure to
   recognize the hand of the Lord in such a resurrection. This is the
   greatest and most remarkable of all changes that a man can undergo --
   to be brought out of the grave of spiritual death, and made to rejoice
   in the light and liberty of spiritual life. None could work this but
   the living God, the Lord and giver of life.

   Ah me! How well do I remember when I was lying in the valley full of
   dry bones, as dry as any of them! Blessed was the day when free and
   sovereign grace sent the man of God to prophesy upon me! Glory be to
   God for the stirring which that word of faith caused among the dry
   bones. More blessed still was that heavenly breath from the four winds
   which made me live! Now know I the quickening Spirit of the ever-living
   Jehovah. Truly Jehovah is the living God, for He made me live. My new
   life even in its pinings and sorrowings is clear proof to me that the
   Lord can kill and make alive. He is the only God. He is all that is
   great, gracious, and glorious, and my quickened soul adores Him as the
   great I AM. All glory be unto His sacred name! As long as I live I will
   praise Him.