Spurgeon: October AM
* 10/09/AM
"Able to keep you from falling."
--Jude 24
In some sense the path to heaven is very safe, but in other
respects there is no road so dangerous . It is beset with
difficulties. One false step (and how easy it is to take that if
grace be absent), and down we go. What a slippery path is that
which some of us have to tread! How many times have we to
exclaim with the Psalmist, "My feet were almost gone, my steps
had well nigh slipped." If we were strong, sure-footed
mountaineers, this would not matter so much; but in ourselves,
how weak we are ! In the best roads we soon falter , in the
smoothest paths we quickly stumble. These feeble knees of ours
can scarcely support our tottering weight. A straw may throw us,
and a pebble can wound us; we are mere children tremblingly
taking our first steps in the walk of faith, our heavenly Father
holds us by the arms or we should soon be down. Oh, if we are
kept from falling, how must we bless the patient power which
watches over us day by day! Think, how prone we are to sin, how
apt to choose danger, how strong our tendency to cast ourselves
down, and these reflections will make us sing more sweetly than
we have ever done, "Glory be to Him, who is able to keep us from
falling." We have many foes who try to push us down. The road
is rough and we are weak, but in addition to this, enemies lurk
in ambush, who rush out when we least expect them, and labour to
trip us up, or hurl us down the nearest precipice. Only an
Almighty arm can preserve us from these unseen foes, who are
seeking to destroy us. Such an arm is engaged for our defence.
He is faithful that hath promised, and He is able to keep us
from falling, so that with a deep sense of our utter weakness,
we may cherish a firm belief in our perfect safety, and say,
with joyful confidence,
"Against me earth and hell combine,
But on my side is power divine;
Jesus is all, and He is mine!"