2/23 Spurgeon Today

“I will never leave thee.” — Hebrews 13:5

No promise is of private interpretation. Whatever God has said to any one
saint, He has said to all. When He opens a well for one, it is that all may
drink. When He openeth a granary-door to give out food, there may be
some one starving man who is the occasion of its being opened, but all
hungry saints may come and feed too. Whether He gave the word to
Abraham or to Moses, matters not, O believer; He has given it to thee as
one of the covenanted seed. There is not a high blessing too lofty for thee,
nor a wide mercy too extensive for thee. Lift up now thine eyes to the
north and to the south, to the east and to the west, for all this is thine.
Climb to Pisgah’s top, and view the utmost limit of the divine promise, for
the land is all thine own. There is not a brook of living water of which thou
mayst not drink. If the land floweth with milk and honey, eat the honey
and drink the milk, for both are thine. Be thou bold to believe, for He hath
said, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”In this promise, God gives
to His people everything. “I will never leave thee.” Then no attribute of
God can cease to be engaged for us. Is He mighty? He will show Himself
strong on the behalf of them that trust Him. Is He love? Then with
lovingkindness will He have mercy upon us. Whatever attributes may
compose the character of Deity, every one of them to its fullest extent
shall be engaged on our side. To put everything in one, there is nothing you
can want, there is nothing you can ask for, there is nothing you can need in
time or in eternity, there is nothing living, nothing dying, there is nothing in
this world, nothing in the next world, there is nothing now, nothing at the
resurrection-morning, nothing in heaven which is not contained in this text
— ”I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”