Dec. 24

Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook

OVER JORDAN WITH SINGING

   "Thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee" Deut. 33:29

   That arch-enemy, the devil, is a liar from the beginning; but he is so
   very plausible that, like mother Eve, we are led to believe him. Yet in
   our experience we shall prove him a liar.

   He says that we shall fall from grace, dishonor our profession, and
   perish with the doom of apostates; but, trusting in the Lord Jesus, we
   shall hold on our way and prove that Jesus loses none whom His Father
   gave Him. He tells us that our bread will fail, and we shall starve
   with our children; yet the Feeder of the ravens has not forgotten us
   yet, and He will never do so, but will prepare us a table in the
   presence of our enemies.

   He whispers that the Lord will not deliver us out of the trial which is
   looming in the distance, and he threatens that the last ounce will
   break the camel's back. What a liar he is! For the Lord will never
   leave us, nor forsake us. "Let him deliver him now!" cries the false
   fiend: but the Lord will silence him by coming to our rescue.

   He takes great delight in telling us that death will prove too much for
   us. "How wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?" But there also he
   shall prove a liar unto us, and we shall pass through the river singing
   psalms of glory.