Why," cries one, "this
is no promise of God." Just so, but it was a promise of man, and
therefore it came to nothing.
Peter thought that he was saying what he
should assuredly carry out; but a promise which has no better foundation
than a human resolve will fall to the ground.
No sooner did temptations
arise than Peter denied his Master and used oaths to confirm his
denial.
What is man's word? An earthen pot broken with a stroke.
What is
your own resolve? A blossom, which, with God's care, may come to fruit,
but which, left to itself, will fall to the ground with the first wind
that moves the bough.
On man's word hang only what it will bear. On
thine own resolve depend not at all.
On the promise of thy God hang time
and eternity, this world and the next, thine all and the all of all thy
beloved ones.
This volume is a checkbook for believers, and this page
is meant as a warning as to what bank they draw upon and whose signature
they accept.
Rely upon Jesus without limit. Trust not thyself nor any
horn of woman, beyond due bounds; but trust thou only and wholly in the
LORD.
~Charles Spurgeon~
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