Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Monday August 21, 2017 |
Evening Time: 1:36 PM PST
"I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye Me in vain." --Isaiah 45:19
We may gain much solace by considering what God has not said. What He
has said is inexpressibly full of comfort and delight; what He has not said is
scarcely less rich in consolation. It was one of these "said nots" which
preserved the kingdom of Israel in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, for
"the Lord said not that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven."
2 Kings 14:27. In our text we have an assurance that God will answer
prayer, because He hath "not said unto the seed of Israel, Seek ye Me in
vain." You who write bitter things against yourselves should remember that, let
your doubts and fears say what they will, if God has not cut you off from
mercy, there is no room for despair: even the voice of conscience is of little
weight if it be not seconded by the voice of God. What God has said,
tremble at! But suffer not your vain imaginings to overwhelm you with
despondency and sinful despair. Many timid persons have been vexed by the
suspicion that there may be something in God's decree which shuts them
out from hope, but here is a complete refutation to that troublesome fear, for
no true seeker can be decreed to wrath. "I have not spoken in secret, in a dark
place of the earth; I have not said," even in the secret of my unsearchable
decree, "Seek ye Me in vain." God has clearly revealed that He will hear
the prayer of those who call upon Him, and that declaration cannot be
contravened. He has so firmly, so truthfully, so righteously spoken, that there
can be no room for doubt. He does not reveal His mind in unintelligible words,
but He speaks plainly and positively, "Ask, and ye shall receive." Believe, O
trembler, this sure truth--that prayer must and shall be heard, and that never,
even in the secrets of eternity, has the Lord said unto any living soul, "Seek
ye Me in vain."
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