Evening, July 5
Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings
Isaiah 26:4
"Trust ye in the Lord forever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting
strength."
Isaiah 26:4
Seeing that we have such a God to trust to, let us rest upon him with
all our weight; let us resolutely drive out all unbelief, and endeavour
to get rid of doubts and fears, which so much mar our comfort; since
there is no excuse for fear where God is the foundation of our trust. A
loving parent would be sorely grieved if his child could not trust him;
and how ungenerous, how unkind is our conduct when we put so little
confidence in our heavenly Father who has never failed us, and who
never will. It were well if doubting were banished from the household
of God; but it is to be feared that old Unbelief is as nimble nowadays
as when the psalmist asked, "Is his mercy clean gone forever? Will he
be favourable no more?" David had not made any very lengthy trial of
the mighty sword of the giant Goliath, and yet he said, "There is none
like it." He had tried it once in the hour of his youthful victory, and
it had proved itself to be of the right metal, and therefore he praised
it ever afterwards; even so should we speak well of our God, there is
none like unto him in the heaven above or the earth beneath; "To whom
then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One." There
is no rock like unto the rock of Jacob, our enemies themselves being
judges. So far from suffering doubts to live in our hearts, we will
take the whole detestable crew, as Elijah did the prophets of Baal, and
slay them over the brook; and for a stream to kill them at, we will
select the sacred torrent which wells forth from our Saviour's wounded
side. We have been in many trials, but we have never yet been cast
where we could not find in our God all that we needed. Let us then be
encouraged to trust in the Lord forever, assured that his ever lasting
strength will be, as it has been, our succour and stay.