Morning, February 23
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“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.”