Morning, December 22

Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings

"I will strengthen thee."

  Isaiah 41:10

   God has a strong reserve with which to discharge this engagement; for
   he is able to do all things. Believer, till thou canst drain dry the
   ocean of omnipotence, till thou canst break into pieces the towering
   mountains of almighty strength, thou never needest to fear. Think not
   that the strength of man shall ever be able to overcome the power of
   God. Whilst the earth's huge pillars stand, thou hast enough reason to
   abide firm in thy faith. The same God who directs the earth in its
   orbit, who feeds the burning furnace of the sun, and trims the lamps of
   heaven, has promised to supply thee with daily strength. While he is
   able to uphold the universe, dream not that he will prove unable to
   fulfil his own promises. Remember what he did in the days of old, in
   the former generations. Remember how he spake and it was done; how he
   commanded, and it stood fast. Shall he that created the world grow
   weary? He hangeth the world upon nothing; shall he who doth this be
   unable to support his children? Shall he be unfaithful to his word for
   want of power? Who is it that restrains the tempest? Doth not he ride
   upon the wings of the wind, and make the clouds his chariots, and hold
   the ocean in the hollow of his hand? How can he fail thee? When he has
   put such a faithful promise as this on record, wilt thou for a moment
   indulge the thought that he has outpromised himself, and gone beyond
   his power to fulfil? Ah, no! Thou canst doubt no longer.

   O thou who art my God and my strength, I can believe that this promise
   shall be fulfilled, for the boundless reservoir of thy grace can never
   be exhausted, and the overflowing storehouse of thy strength can never
   be emptied by thy friends or rifled by thine enemies.


   "Now let the feeble all be strong,

   And make Jehovah's arm their song."