Dec. 28

Charles Spurgeon · Faith's Checkbook

ABSOLUTE ASSURANCE

   "He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee" Heb. 13:5

   Several times in the Scriptures the Lord hath said this. He has often
   repeated it, to make our assurance doubly sure. Let us never harbor a
   doubt of it. In itself the promise is specially emphatic. In the Greek
   it has five negatives, each one definitely shutting out the possibility
   of the Lord's ever leaving one of His people so that he can justly feel
   forsaken of his God. This priceless Scripture does not promise us
   exemption from trouble, but it does secure us against desertion. We may
   be called to traverse strange ways, but we shall always have our Lord's
   company, assistance, and provision. We need not covet money, for we
   shall always have our God, and God is better than gold, His favor is
   better than fortune.

   We ought surely to be content with such things as we have, for he who
   has God has more than all the world besides. What can we have beyond
   the Infinite? What more can we desire than Almighty Goodness.

   Come, my heart; if God says He will never leave thee, nor forsake thee,
   be thou much in prayer for grace, that thou mayest never leave thy
   Lord, nor even for a moment forsake His ways.