Dec. 26
Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook
GOD ONLY, YOU CAN TRUST
"Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended
because of thee, yet will I never be offended" Matt. 26:33
"Why," cries one, "this is no promise of God." Just so, but it was a
promise of man, and therefore it came to nothing. Peter thought that he
was saying what he should assuredly carry out; but a promise which has
no better foundation than a human resolve will fall to the ground. No
sooner did temptations arise than Peter denied his Master, and used
oaths to confirm his denial.
What is man's word? An earthen pot broken with a stroke. What is your
own resolve? A blossom, which, with God's care, may come to fruit, but
which, left to itself, will fall to the ground with the first wind that
moves the bough.
On man's word hang only what it will bear.
On thine own resolve depend not at all.
On the promise of thy God hang time and eternity, this world and the
next, thine all and the all of all thy beloved ones.
This volume is a checkbook for believers, and this page is meant as a
warning as to what bank they draw upon, and whose signature they
accept. Rely upon Jesus without limit. Trust not thyself nor any born
of woman, beyond due bounds; but trust thou only and wholly in the
Lord.