Spurgeon: July AM
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"Exceeding great and precious promises."
--2 Peter 1:4
If you would know experimentally the preciousness of the
promises, and enjoy them in your own heart, meditate much upon
them . There are promises which are like grapes in the
wine-press; if you will tread them the juice will flow. Thinking
over the hallowed words will often be the prelude to their
fulfillment. While you are musing upon them, the boon which you
are seeking will insensibly come to you. Many a Christian who
has thirsted for the promise has found the favour which it
ensured gently distilling into his soul even while he has been
considering the divine record; and he has rejoiced that ever he
was led to lay the promise near his heart.
But besides meditating upon the promises, seek in thy soul
to receive them as being the very words of God . Speak to thy
soul thus, "If I were dealing with a man's promise, I should
carefully consider the ability and the character of the man who
had covenanted with me. So with the promise of God; my eye must
not be so much fixed upon the greatness of the mercy--that may
stagger me; as upon the greatness of the promiser--that will
cheer me. My soul, it is God, even thy God, God that cannot lie,
who speaks to thee. This word of His which thou art now
considering is as true as His own existence. He is a God
unchangeable. He has not altered the thing which has gone out of
His mouth, nor called back one single consolatory sentence. Nor
doth He lack any power; it is the God that made the heavens and
the earth who has spoken thus. Nor can He fail in wisdom as to
the time when He will bestow the favours, for He knoweth when it
is best to give and when better to withhold. Therefore, seeing
that it is the word of a God so true, so immutable, so powerful,
so wise, I will and must believe the promise." If we thus
meditate upon the promises, and consider the Promiser, we shall
experience their sweetness, and obtain their fulfillment.