Evening, July 5
Go To Morning Reading
“Trust ye in the Lord forever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting
strength.”
Isaiah 26:4
Seeing that we have such a God to trust to, let us rest upon him with
all our weight; let us resolutely drive out all unbelief, and endeavour
to get rid of doubts and fears, which so much mar our comfort; since
there is no excuse for fear where God is the foundation of our trust.
A loving parent would be sorely grieved if his child could not trust
him; and how ungenerous, how unkind is our conduct when we put so
little confidence in our heavenly Father who has never failed us,
and who never will. It were well if doubting were banished from the
household of God; but it is to be feared that old Unbelief is as nimble
nowadays as when the psalmist asked, “Is his mercy clean gone forever? Will he be favourable no more?” David had not made any very lengthy trial of the mighty sword of
the giant Goliath, and yet he said, “There is none like it.” He had tried it once in the hour of his youthful victory, and it
had proved itself to be of the right metal, and therefore he praised
it ever afterwards; even so should we speak well of our God, there
is none like unto him in the heaven above or the earth beneath; “To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy
One.” There is no rock like unto the rock of Jacob, our enemies themselves
being judges. So far from suffering doubts to live in our hearts,
we will take the whole detestable crew, as Elijah did the prophets
of Baal, and slay them over the brook; and for a stream to kill them
at, we will select the sacred torrent which wells forth from our Saviour’s wounded side. We have been in many trials, but we have never yet
been cast where we could not find in our God all that we needed. Let
us then be encouraged to trust in the Lord forever, assured that his
ever lasting strength will be, as it has been, our succour and stay.