"The LORD will fulfill His purpose for me;
Your steadfast love, O LORD, endures forever.
Do not forsake the work of Your hands."
This verse has been a special promise for me lately. Charles Spurgeon preached an encouraging New Year's sermon on this text. Here are some excerpts:
- This is my confidence, the Lord that began will perfect. He has done it all, must do it all, He will do it all. My confidence must not be in what I can do, or in what I have resolved to do, but entirely in what the Lord will do.
- O child of God! leave the future to thy God. O leave everything that is to come in the hand of Him to Whom the future is already present, and Who knows beforehand everything that shalt befall thee.
- He will most assuredly, beyond a doubt, bring to perfection my faith, my love, my hope, and every grace. He will perfect His purposes; He will perfect His promises; He will perfect my body, and perfect my soul.
- Once pardon of sin concerned me; that He has perfected. Then imputed righteousness concerned me; that He perfected. Now, sanctification troubles me; that He will perfect.
- All the weight of my trouble, all the weight of my backsliding, all the weight of my evil heart of unbelief—all these the everlasting arches of divine mercy can and will sustain. Those arches never shall rock; the stone never shall be crumbled; it never shall be swept away by even the floods of eternity itself. Because His mercy endureth for ever, God will most assuredly perfect the work of His hands.
- May God grant, when you and I shall come to the end of this year, we may have a good tale to tell concerning the faithfulness of God in having answered our prayers, and having fulfilled His promise.
When this year is ended, perhaps I will be able to tell you, my dear one, how God has fulfilled His promise to bring you to me!
The work which His goodness began, the arm of His strength will complete;
His promise is Yea and Amen, and never was forfeited yet.
Things future, nor things that are now, nor all things below or above,
Can make Him His purpose forgo, or sever my soul from His love.
His promise is Yea and Amen, and never was forfeited yet.
Things future, nor things that are now, nor all things below or above,
Can make Him His purpose forgo, or sever my soul from His love.
(Augustus M. Toplady)
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