Spurgeon Mar. 19: Faith Connects You to God

MORNING "Strong in faith." Romans 4:20

CHRISTIAN, take good care of your faith in God; for faith is the only way you can obtain blessings. If you want blessings from God, nothing can fetch them down but faith. Prayer cannot draw down answers from God's throne unless it is the earnest prayer of the one who believes and prays to be blessed with answers. Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and your Lord Jesus in glory. Let that angel be withdrawn and we can neither send up prayer, nor receive the answers. Faith is the telegraphic wire which links earth and heaven --- on which God's messages of love fly so fast, that before we call He answers, and while we are yet speaking He hears us. But if that wire of faith is snapped, how can we receive the promise? Am I in trouble? --- I can obtain help for trouble by faith. Am I beaten about by the enemy? --- My soul on her dear Refuge leans by faith. But take faith away --- in vain I call to God. There is no road between my soul and heaven except faith. In the deepest wintertime faith is the road on which the horses of prayer may travel --- but blockade the road and how can we communicate with our Father in heaven? Faith links me with divinity. Faith clothes me with the power of God. Faith engages on my side the omnipotence of Jehovah. Faith ensures every attribute of God in my defense. It helps me to defy the hosts of hell. It makes me march triumphant over the necks of my enemies. But without faith how can I receive anything from the Lord? Let not him that wavers -- who is like a wave of the Sea --- expect that he will receive anything from God! O, then, Christian, watch well your faith; for with it you can win all things, however poor you are, but without faith you can obtain nothing from God. "If you can believe, all things are possible to one that believes."

EVENING "And she did eat, and was sufficed, and left." Ruth 2:14

WHENEVER we are privileged to eat of the bread which Jesus gives, we are, like Ruth, satisfied with the full and sweet repast. When Jesus is the host no guest goes empty from the table. Our head is satisfied with the precious truth which Christ reveals our heart is content with Jesus, as the altogether lovely object of affection our hope is satisfied for whom have we in heaven but Jesus? Our Desire is satiated, for what can we wish for more than "to know Christ and to be found in Him?" Jesus fills our conscience till it is at perfect peace; our judgement with persuasion of the certainty of His teachings; our memory with recollections of what He has done, and our imagination with prospects of what He is yet to do. As Ruth was "sufficed, and left," so it is with us. We have had deep thoughts; we have thought that we could take in all of Christ; but when we have done our best we have had to leave a vast remainder. We have sat at the table of the Lord's love, and said, "Nothing but the infinite can ever satisfy me; I am such a great sinner that I must have infinite merit to wash my sin away; but we have had our sin removed, and found that there was merit to spare; we have had our hunger relieved at the feast of sacred love, and found that there was a redundance of spiritual meat remaining. There are certain sweet things in the Word of God which we have not enjoyed yet, and which we are obliged to leave for awhile; for we are like the disciples to whom Jesus said, "I have many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now." Yes, there are graces to which we have not attained; places of fellowship nearer to Christ which we have not climbed. At every banquet of love there are many baskets of fragments left. Let us magnify the liberality of our glorious Boaz.

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