Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Tuesday September 28, 2021 |
Evening Time: 1:42 PM PST
"Go again seven times." --1 Kings 18:43
Success is certain when the Lord has promised it. Although you may have
pleaded month after month without evidence of answer, it is not possible that
the Lord should be deaf when His people are earnest in a matter which concerns
His glory. The prophet on the top of Carmel continued to wrestle with God, and
never for a moment gave way to a fear that he should be non-suited in Jehovah's
courts. Six times the servant returned, but on each occasion no word was spoken
but "Go again." We must not dream of unbelief, but hold to our faith even to
seventy times seven. Faith sends expectant hope to look from Carmel's brow, and
if nothing is beheld, she sends again and again. So far from being crushed by
repeated disappointment, faith is animated to plead more fervently with her God.
She is humbled, but not abashed: her groans are deeper, and her sighings more
vehement, but she never relaxes her hold or stays her hand. It would be more
agreeable to flesh and blood to have a speedy answer, but believing souls have
learned to be submissive, and to find it good to wait for as well as
upon the Lord. Delayed answers often set the heart searching itself, and
so lead to contrition and spiritual reformation: deadly blows are thus struck at
our corruption, and the chambers of imagery are cleansed. The great danger is
lest men should faint, and miss the blessing. Reader, do not fall into that sin,
but continue in prayer and watching. At last the little cloud was seen, the sure
forerunner of torrents of rain, and even so with you, the token for good shall
surely be given, and you shall rise as a prevailing prince to enjoy the mercy
you have sought. Elijah was a man of like passions with us: his power with God
did not lie in his own merits. If his believing prayer availed so much, why not
yours? Plead the precious blood with unceasing importunity, and it shall be with
you according to your desire.
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