![]() These and such like golden sentences of grace I have loved more than my necessary food, and with them I have enriched these pages. For him there were words of deep sustaining power, which kept his mind from failing where nature unaided must have sunk. His was the sorrow which comes of disappointed love, and resolute loyalty he would have turned his people from their errors, but he would not himself quit the way of the LORD. His lot it was to speak to those who would not hear, or hearing, would nor believe. Specially has the Word of the LORD to His servant Jeremiah sounded exceedingly sweet in mine ears. How much more wonderful is the Bible to me now than it was a few months ago! In obeying the LORD, and bearing His reproach outside the camp, I have not received new promises but the result to me is much the same as if I had done so, for the old ones have opened up to me with richer stores. Some of them I never understood till now I had not reached the date at which they matured, for I was not myself mature enough to perceive their meaning. ![]() Never were the promises of Jehovah so precious to me as at this hour. I have traversed full many a time those oceans which are not Pacific: I know the roll of the billows, and the rush of the winds. ![]() I do not mention this to exact sympathy, but simply to let the reader see that I am no dry-land sailor. The waters rolled in continually, wave upon wave. Sharp bodily pain succeeded mental depression, and this was accompanied both by bereavement and affliction in the person of one dear as life. I have endured tribulation from many hails. Since then I have been cast into "waters to swim in," which, but for God's upholding hand, would have proved waters to drown in. I commenced these daily portions when I was wading in the surf of controversy. One man's experience may be of the utmost use to another and this is why the man of God of old wrote, "I sought the LORD, and he heard me" and again, "This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him." This, I trust, may be cheering to the young and not without solace to the older sort. I have seen that they are true, for they have been fulfilled to me. I believe all the promises of God, but many of them I have personally tried and proved. To the cheering Scriptures I have added testimonies of my own, the fruit of trial and experience. The sight of the promises themselves is good for the eyes of faith: the more we study the words of grace, the more grace shall we derive from the words. ![]() To help my brethren to believe this, I have prepared this little volume. God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill. This is not the fault of the promise, but of those who do not act with it in a common-sense, business-like manner. Some fail to place the endorsement of faith upon the check, and so they get nothing and others are slack in presenting it, and these also receive nothing. If the date should happen to be further on, he must patiently wait till its arrival but meanwhile he may count the promise as money, for the Bank is sure to pay when the due time arrives. If he has come to Heaven's bank at the right date, he will receive the promised amount at once. He must plead it by prayer, expecting to have it fulfilled. This done, he must believingly present the promise to the LORD, as a man presents a check at the counter of the Bank. He goes further, and believes that he has the blessing in having the sure promise of it and therefore he puts his name to it to testify to the receipt of the blessing. He sets to his seal that God is true, and true as to this particular word of promise. He is to take the promise, and endorse it with his own name by personally receiving it as true. No, he is to treat the promise as a reality, as a man treats a check. It is not meant that he should read it over comfortably, and then have done with it. It is given to the believer with the view of bestowing upon him some good thing. mobi & pdf formatsĪ PROMISE from God may very instructively be compared to a check payable to order.
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