What a joy. I would in the Spirit that all might read this and be blessed o LORD; As I was studying the fear of the LORD, the Spirit drew me to this, once again through the Spirit indwelled in Spurgeon; “They... limited the Holy One of Israel.” Psalm 78:41 God is not limited to means—to any means, much less to one of my choosing. If He deliver thee not by calming the tempest, He has a better way in store; He will send from above and deliver thee; He will snatch thee out of the deep waters lest the floods overflow thee. What might Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego have said? Suppose they had got it into their heads that God would deliver them in some particular way. They did have some such idea, but they said, as if to prove that they trusted not really to their thought about the deliverance—“Nevertheless, be it known unto thee, O king, we will not worship thy gods, nor bow before the image which thou hast set up.” They were prepared to let God have His will, even though He used no means of deliverance. But suppose, I say, they had conferred with flesh and blood, and Shadrach had said, “God will strike Nebuchadnezzar dead; just at the moment when the men are about to put us into the furnace the king will turn pale and die, and so we shall escape.” O my friends, they would have trembled indeed when they went into the furnace if they had chosen their own means of deliverance, and the king had remained alive. But instead of this, they gave themselves up to God, even if He did not deliver them. And, though He did not prevent their going into the furnace, yet He kept them alive in it, so that not so much as the smell of fire had passed upon them. It shall be even so with you. Repose in God. When thou seest Him not, believe Him; when everything seems to contradict thy faith, still stagger not at the promise. If HE hath said it, HE will show you the ways and provide the means to do it in Jesus name. Our ways are not YOUR ways. Where our ways can multiply complications, YOUR ways can humble us by their straightforward simplicity, especially when we listen and seek YOUR will in Jesus name. I love you all.
Posted on: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 12:01:05 +0000
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