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When you hear an investment advertisement you may also hear: “past performance does not guarantee future returns”. While that is true of the stock market, it is not true of God. Past deliverance IS indicative of future deliverance… today on Faith’s Checkbook with Charles Spurgeon
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Faith’s Checkbook
Daily Devotional Reading by Charles Spurgeon
For February 22
Past Deliverance Begets Faith
David said, “The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.”. (1 Samuel 17:37 ESV)
This is not a promise if we consider only the words, but it is truly so as to its sense (meaning); for David spoke a word which the Lord endorsed by making it true. He argued from past deliverance’s that he should receive help in a new danger. In Jesus all the promises are “Yes” and “Amen” to the glory of God by us, and so the Lord’s former dealings with His believing people will be repeated.
Come, then, let us recall the Lord’s former lovingkindness. We could not have hoped to be delivered in an earlier time by our own strength; yet the Lord delivered us. Will He not again save us? We can be certain that He will. As David ran to meet his foe, so will we. The Lord has been with us, He is with us, and He has said, “I will never leave you, nor forsake you”.
Why then do we tremble? Was the past merely a dream? Think of the dead bear and lion. Who is this Philistine? True, he is not quite the same, and is neither bear nor lion; but then God is the same, and His honor is as much concerned in the one case as in the other. He did not save us from the beasts of the forest to let a giant kill us. Let us be of good courage. †
For February 22nd, Faith’s Check Book Daily Devotional Reading by Charles Spurgeon.
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