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We are to trust in God's faithfulness, not to test it.

Don Lambert

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Consider what thou owest to His (God's)immutability. Though thou hast changed a thousand times, He has not changed once; though thou hast shifted thy intentions, and thy will, yet He has not once swerved from His eternal purpose, but has still held thee fast.

Charles Spurgeon

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In 1891 the last year of his (Spurgeon’s) life, there was another sermon from the book of Daniel, this time on the resolution of Daniel’s three companions who were thrown into the furnace for their refusal to submit to Nebuchadnezzar. In the first division of the sermon he lists the kind of excuses the three men might have used to justify a compliance which might have used to justify a compliance which would have kept them out of the furnace. They might have said, ‘We can do more good by living,’ dying would ‘cut short our opportunities for usefulness.’ Upon which Spurgeon enlarges:

“Ah, my dear brethren! There are many that are deceived by this method of reasoning. They remain where their conscience tells them they ought not to be, because, they say, they are more useful than they would be if they went “without the camp”. This is doing evil that good may come, and can never be tolerated by an enlightened conscience. If an act of sin would increase my usefulness tenfold, I have no right to do it; and if an act of righteousness would appear likely to destroy all my apparent usefulness, I am yet to do it. It is yours and mine to do the right though the heavens fall, and follow the command of Christ whatever the consequences may be. “That is strong meat,” do you say? Be strong men, then, and feed thereon…

For right is right, since God is God,

And right the day must win;

To doubt would be disloyalty,

To falter would be sin.

Excerpt from The Forgotten Spurgeon - by Iain Murray

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Want of trust is at the root of almost all our sins and all our weaknesses; and how shall we escape it but by looking to Him and observing His faithfulness?...The man who holds God's faithfulness will not be foolhardy or reckless, but he will be ready for every emergency.  The man who holds God's faithfulness will dare to obey Him, however impolitic it may be appear. "  As to the correctness of this modified translation, Mr. Taylor noted:  "For the rendering 'God's faithfulness,' see Rom. Iii. 3, where 'the faith of God' evidently means His faithfulness.  The verb translated 'hold', is thus rendered in Matt. Xxi. 26, 'all hold John as a prophet.' In the corresponding passage in Mark xi. 32, it is rendered 'count'; and in that in Luke xx. 6, a different Greek verb is used, which well illustrates the meaning, 'They be persuaded that John was a prophet.'  Let us see that in theory we hold that God is faithful; that in daily life we count upon it; and that at all times and under all circumstances we are fully persuaded of this blessed truth."  Abraham held God's faithfulness and offered up Isaac, 'Accounting that God was able to raise him from the dead.'  Moses held God's faithfulness and led the millions of Israel into the waste, holing wilderness.  Joshua knew Israel well, and was ignorant neither of the fortifications of the Canaanites nor of their martial prowess, but he held God's faithfulness and led Israel across the Jordan….The Apostles held God's faithfulness, and were not daunted by the hatred of the Jews or the hostility of the heathen….  "And what shall I more say? For the time would fail me to tell of those who, holding God's faithfulness, had faith, and by it subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises…out of weakness were made strong, waked valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the nations?'  Satan, too, has his creed:  Doubt God's Faithfulness.  Hath God said?  Are you not mistaken as to His commands?  He could not really mean just that.  You take and extreme view, a literal meaning to the words.'….How constantly, and, alas, how successfully are such arguments used to prevent whole-hearted trust in God, whole-hearted consecration to God!....How many estimate difficulties in the light of their own resources, and thus attempt little and often fail in the little they attempt.  All God's giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them.

 

Hudson Taylor