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Sunday, June 8, 2008
MORNING:
"There fell down many slain, because the war was of God."
-- 1 Chronicles 5:22
Warrior, fighting under the banner of the Lord Jesus, observe this
verse with holy joy, for as it was in the days of old so is it now, if
the war be of God the victory is sure. The sons of Reuben, and the
Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh could barely muster five and
forty thousand fighting men, and yet in their war with the Hagarites,
they slew "men, an hundred thousand," "for they cried to God in the
battle, and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust in
him." The Lord saveth not by many nor by few; it is ours to go forth in
Jehovah's name if we be but a handful of men, for the Lord of Hosts is
with us for our Captain. They did not neglect buckler, and sword, and
bow, neither did they place their trust in these weapons; we must use
all fitting means, but our confidence must rest in the Lord alone, for
he is the sword and the shield of his people. The great reason of their
extraordinary success lay in the fact that "the war was of God."
Beloved, in fighting with sin without and within, with error doctrinal
or practical, with spiritual wickedness in high places or low places,
with devils and the devil's allies, you are waging Jehovah's war, and
unless he himself can be worsted, you need not fear defeat. Quail not
before superior numbers, shrink not from difficulties or
impossibilities, flinch not at wounds or death, smite with the
two-edged sword of the Spirit, and the slain shall lie in heaps. The
battle is the Lord's and he will deliver his enemies into our hands.
With steadfast foot, strong hand, dauntless heart, and flaming zeal,
rush to the conflict, and the hosts of evil shall fly like chaff before
the gale.
Stand up! stand up for Jesus!
The strife will not be long;
This day the noise of battle,
The next the victor's song:
To him that overcometh,
A crown of life shall be;
He with the King of glory
Shall reign eternally.
EVENING:
"Thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto
thee or not."
-- Numbers 11:23
God had made a positive promise to Moses that for the space of a whole
month he would feed the vast host in the wilderness with flesh. Moses,
being overtaken by a fit of unbelief, looks to the outward means, and
is at a loss to know how the promise can be fulfilled. He looked to the
creature instead of the Creator. But doth the Creator expect the
creature to fulfil his promise for him? No; he who makes the promise
ever fulfils it by his own unaided omnipotence. If he speaks, it is
done-done by himself. His promises do not depend for their fulfilment
upon the co-operation of the puny strength of man. We can at once
perceive the mistake which Moses made. And yet how commonly we do the
same! God has promised to supply our needs, and we look to the creature
to do what God has promised to do; and then, because we perceive the
creature to be weak and feeble, we indulge in unbelief. Why look we to
that quarter at all? Will you look to the north pole to gather fruits
ripened in the sun? Verily, you would act no more foolishly if ye did
this than when you look to the weak for strength, and to the creature
to do the Creator's work. Let us, then, put the question on the right
footing. The ground of faith is not the sufficiency of the visible
means for the performance of the promise, but the all-sufficiency of
the invisible God, who will most surely do as he hath said. If after
clearly seeing that the onus lies with the Lord and not with the
creature, we dare to indulge in mistrust, the question of God comes
home mightily to us: "Has the Lord's hand waxed short?" May it happen,
too, in his mercy, that with the question there may flash upon our
souls that blessed declaration, "Thou shalt see now whether my word
shall come to pass unto thee or not."
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