Trust the Lord for Everything
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“Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God
to you; and considering the result of their conduct, imitate their faith.” Hebrews 13:7
The writer of
Hebrews refers to the ones who evangelized the Hebrew Christians. They spoke
the word of God to them, the gospel which brought them salvation by grace
through faith. Now he speaks of the conduct of these Christian leaders, beyond
their evangelism. It depicted a life of faith; a life of trusting the Lord. Not
only is faith the means that brings us salvation, but it defines the whole of
the Christian life. On old hymn says, “Those
who trust Him fully, find Him fully true.” Therefore true Christianity is
called The Faith, and its leaders
must be an example to the believers of a life of faith. He who does not lead in
faith, is not qualified as a leader.
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| C. H. Spurgeon |
We will go to
that great Christian leader, who has taught the church, not only in his
lifetime, but continues to do so through his written works. Not only did he
lead his church in London, but he continues to lead believers of all
evangelical denominations around the world, who are edified by his anointed teaching.
Charles Spurgeon
was a God-made preacher. Is there another kind? Without formal Bible training,
he disciplined himself and enrolled in the school of the Spirit. He began to
preach as a teenager and caught the attention of a Christian leader in London,
who invited him to preach there. He became a London pastor at the age of 19,
clothed with godly wisdom far beyond his years. He was short and stout and not
very handsome. His attraction was the Word of God. The time came, when there
was not a building in London big enough to hold the crowds that came to drink
in the Word, as it was poured out through the lips of Charles Spurgeon. His
secretary claimed to see angels over the hills of the resort town in France,
when Spurgeon died there, trusting the Lord.
Around
the Wicket Gate
a Spurgeon meditation
Friends, if you have begun to trust the Lord, trust
Him out and out. Let your faith be the most real and practical thing in your
whole life. Don’t trust the Lord in mere sentiment about a few great spiritual
things; trust Him for everything, forever, both for time and eternity, for body
and for soul. See how the Lord hangs the world upon nothing but His own Word!
It has neither prop nor pillar. The great arch of heaven stands without a
buttress or a wooden center. The Lord can and will bear all the strain that
faith can ever put upon Him. The greatest troubles are easy to His power, and
the darkest mysteries are clear to His wisdom. Trust God up to the hilt. Lean,
and lean hard; yet lean all your weight and every other weight upon the Mighty
God of Jacob.
The future you can safely leave with the Lord, who
ever lives and never changes. The past is now in your Savior’s hand, and you shall
never be condemned for it, whatever it may have been, for the Lord has cast
your iniquities into the midst of the sea. Believe at this moment in your
present privileges. You are saved! If you are a believer in the Lord Jesus, you
have passed from death unto life, and you are saved.
In the old slave days a lady brought her black servant
on board an English ship, and she laughingly said to the captain, “I suppose if
I and Aunt Chloe were to go to England she would be free?” “Madam, said the
captain, “she is now free. The moment she came on board a British vessel she
was free.” When the negro woman knew this, she did not leave the ship – not she.
It was not the hope of liberty that made her bold, but the fact of liberty. So
you are not now merely hoping for eternal life, but “He that believeth in him hath everlasting life.” Accept this as a
fact revealed in the sacred Word, and begin to rejoice accordingly.
Do not reason about it, or call it in question;
believe it and leap for joy.
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