Spurgeon: October AM
* 10/25/AM
"For the truths sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us
for ever."
--2 John 2
Once let the truth of God obtain an entrance into the human
heart and subdue the whole man unto itself, no power human or
infernal can dislodge it. We entertain it not as a guest but as
the master of the house--this is a Christian necessity , he is
no Christian who doth not thus believe. Those who feel the vital
power of the gospel, and know the might of the Holy Ghost as He
opens, applies, and seals the Lord's Word, would sooner be torn
to pieces than be rent away from the gospel of their salvation.
What a thousand mercies are wrapt up in the assurance that the
truth will be with us for ever; will be our living support, our
dying comfort, our rising song, our eternal glory; this is
Christian privilege , without it our faith were little worth.
Some truths we outgrow and leave behind, for they are but
rudiments and lessons for beginners, but we cannot thus deal
with Divine truth, for though it is sweet food for babes, it is
in the highest sense strong meat for men. The truth that we are
sinners is painfully with us to humble and make us watchful; the
more blessed truth that whosoever believeth on the Lord Jesus
shall be saved, abides with us as our hope and joy. Experience,
so far from loosening our hold of the doctrines of grace, has
knit us to them more and more firmly; our grounds and motives
for believing are now more strong, more numerous than ever, and
we have reason to expect that it will be so till in death we
clasp the Saviour in our arms.
Wherever this abiding love of truth can be discovered, we are
bound to exercise our love. No narrow circle can contain our
gracious sympathies, wide as the election of grace must be our
communion of heart. Much of error may be mingled with truth
received, let us war with the error but still love the brother
for the measure of truth which we see in Him; above all let us
love and spread the truth ourselves.