July 5, Evening

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength." — Isaiah 26:4 · KJV

Since we have such a God to trust to, let us rest on Him with all our weight; let us resolutely drive out all unbelief, and try to get rid of the doubts and fears that so much mar our comfort, since there is no excuse for fear where God is the foundation of our trust. A loving parent would be sorely grieved if his child could not trust him; and how ungenerous, how unkind is our conduct when we put so little confidence in our heavenly Father, who has never failed us, and who never will! It would be well if doubting were banished from the household of God; but it is to be feared that old Unbelief is as nimble nowadays as when the psalmist asked, "Is His mercy clean gone for ever? Will He be favourable no more?" David had not made any very lengthy trial of the mighty sword of the giant Goliath, and yet he said, "There is none like it." He had tried it once, in the hour of his youthful victory, and it had proved itself to be of the right metal, and therefore he praised it ever afterward; even so should we speak well of our God — there is none like Him in the heaven above or the earth beneath. "To whom then will ye liken Me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One." There is no rock like the rock of Jacob, our enemies themselves being judges. So far from letting doubts live in our hearts, we will take the whole detestable crew, as Elijah did the prophets of Baal, and put an end to them; and for a stream at which to do it, we will choose the sacred torrent that wells forth from our Savior's wounded side. We have been in many trials, but we have never yet been cast where we could not find in our God all that we needed. Let us then be encouraged to trust in the Lord forever, assured that His everlasting strength will be, as it has been, our help and stay.