Spurgeon: February AM
* 02/23/AM
"I will never leave thee."
--Hebrews 13:5
No promise is of private interpretation. Whatever God has
said to any one saint, He has said to all. When He opens a well
for one, it is that all may drink. When He openeth a granary-
door to give out food, there may be some one starving man who is
the occasion of its being opened, but all hungry saints may come
and feed too. Whether He gave the word to Abraham or to Moses,
matters not, O believer; He has given it to thee as one of the
covenanted seed. There is not a high blessing too lofty for
thee, nor a wide mercy too extensive for thee. Lift up now
thine eyes to the north and to the south, to the east and to the
west, for all this is thine. Climb to Pisgah's top, and view the
utmost limit of the divine promise, for the land is all thine
own. There is not a brook of living water of which thou mayst
not drink. If the land floweth with milk and honey, eat the
honey and drink the milk, for both are thine. Be thou bold to
believe, for He hath said, "I will never leave thee , nor
forsake thee ."In this promise, God gives to His people
everything. " I will never leave thee." Then no attribute of
God can cease to be engaged for us. Is He mighty? He will show
Himself strong on the behalf of them that trust Him. Is He love?
Then with lovingkindness will He have mercy upon us. Whatever
attributes may compose the character of Deity, every one of them
to its fullest extent shall be engaged on our side. To put
everything in one, there is nothing you can want, there is
nothing you can ask for, there is nothing you can need in time
or in eternity, there is nothing living, nothing dying, there is
nothing in this world, nothing in the next world, there is
nothing now, nothing at the resurrection-morning, nothing in
heaven which is not contained in this text--"I will never leave
thee, nor forsake thee."