Nov. 1

Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook

PERFECTION AND PRESERVATION

   "Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it" I Thess. 5:24

   What will He do? He will sanctify us wholly. See the previous verse. He
   will carry on the work of purification till we are perfect in every
   part. He will preserve our "whole spirit, and soul, and body, blameless
   unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." He will not allow us to fall
   from grace, nor come under the dominion of sin. What great favors are
   these! Well may we adore the giver of such unspeakable gifts.

   Who will do this? The Lord who has called us out of darkness into His
   marvelous light, out of death in sin into eternal life in Christ Jesus.
   Only He can do this: such perfection and preservation can only come
   from the God of all grace.

   Why will He do it? Because He is "faithful" -- faithful to His own
   promise which is pledged to save the believer; faithful to His Son,
   whose reward it is that His people shall be presented to Him faultless;
   faithful to the work which He has commenced in us by our effectual
   calling. It is not their own faithfulness, but the Lord's own
   faithfulness, on which the saints rely.

   Come, my soul, here is a grand feast to begin a dull month with. There
   may be fogs without, but there should be sunshine within.