NOVEMBER 13

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES

Ephesians 2:10

“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.”

Ephesians 3:9

“and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;”

Colossians 1:15-16

“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.  For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.”

Psalm 47:2

“For the Lord Most High is awesome; He is a great King over all the earth.”

Psalm 103:19

“The Lord has established His throne in heaven, And His kingdom rules over all.”

Romans 8:28

“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.”

This month we will read choices from Charles Spurgeon’s (known affectionately as the “prince of preachers”)  devotional, “Beside Still Waters.”   It’s no secret that this world system is getting more evil by the day.  We have to stand strong in the Lord and look to Him more than ever to get through, and to be guided through, what is in the future……..known and allowed  by Him alone…..as well as whatever personal things we are experiencing in our lives.

PASTOR SPURGEON:

The laws of nature can do nothing of themselves.  There is no such power as a law of nature acting by itself, for all power lies in God.  A law of nature is nothing more or less than a description of the way the Lord works.

Usually, God causes ships to obey their helms and rocks to retain their hardness.  Thus it is the badly steered vessel that strikes the rocks and sinks.  The one who dies of sickness does not die because of some ungovernable force in nature but because God gives energy to destructive agencies.  The laws of nature are only powerless letters.  I see them, and I know that God acts according to them.  It is God working by the law, for He does it all.

This truth sets matters in another light.  If the Lord brings the trial, we should yield to His will and not complain, for His ways of action are right.  If His ways cause grief, we still believe that He does not afflict willingly or give us pain without design (Lamentations 3:33).  Instead of saying, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing (Mark 4:38), we ought to cry in submission, It is the Lord.  Let Him do what seems good to Him.” (1Samuel 3;18).

What happens occurs because God causes all things to work together for good to those who love Him, to those who are the called according to His purpose. (Romans 8:28).  God has His purpose and His way.  His purposes are for His glory and for the good of His people for eternity.

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