DECEMBER 31

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES

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Hebrews 13:6

“The Lord is my helper;  I will not fear.  What can man do to me?”

2 Corinthians 9:8

“And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.”

2 Peter 1:3

“as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue,”

Ps 68:19

“Blessed be the Lord,  Who daily loads us with benefits, (some other versions say ‘bears our burdens’)  The God of our salvation! Selah”

Ps 91:1

“He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”

Psalm 72:12

“For He will deliver the needy when he cries, The poor also, and him who has no helper.”

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This is the last day that we will read choices from Charles Spurgeon’s devotional, “Beside Still Waters.”  Tomorrow we will begin a new devotional   “Becoming New”,  written by Warren W. Wiersbe and compiled by his grandson.  Pastor Wiersbe was the President of Moody Bible Institute before the current President, Erwin Lutzer.  

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PASTOR SPURGEON:

The fact that the Lord has constantly been our helper confirms our faith.  If in looking back we could find a point where God failed, we might let our faith waiver.  I speak from experience.  I cannot find one example in all my life in which God was untrue or unkind.  If we never doubt God until we have a reason, we will never doubt as long as we live.

Yesterday I looked at some birds in a cage.  These  little creatures are entirely dependent on those who feed them.  They cannot help themselves.  If seed and water is not supplied, they will die.  Yet there they sit and sing with all their might.  Their state of dependence never distresses them.  They never think that their keeper will fail them.

That is my position.  I am God’s singing bird.  Perhaps I wonder where I shall get my bread or my next sermons, and a great many cares and troubles come to me.  But why should I be troubled?  Instead of mistrusting my keeper, who has fed me these many years, I had best sit and sing as loudly as I can.  That is the best thing to do.  The birds do it.  So why not you and me?  We are supposed to have more intellect than a bird, but at times we do not seem to have half as much.

The Lord has constantly been true.  Do not doubt.  If some remarkable trial should waylay you between here and heaven, you will find extraordinary deliverance and support from Him who has been your helper.  “For He himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’  So we may boldly say: ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not fear.’”  (Hebrews 13:5-6).

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