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       Faith's Checkbook

      Charles H. Spurgeon
      Jun 30, 2006




July 1
God With Us



"God shall be with you" (Genesis 48:21).



Good old Jacob could no more be with Joseph, for his hour had come to die: but
he left his son without anxiety, for he said with confidence, "God shall be
with you." When our dearest relations or our most helpful friends are called
home by death, we must console ourselves with the reflection that the LORD is
not departed from us but lives for us and abides with us forever.



If God be with us, we are in ennobling company, even though we are poor and
despised. If God be with us, we have all sufficient strength, for nothing can
be too hard for the LORD. If God be with us, we are always safe, for none can
harm those who walk under His shadow. Oh, what a joy we have here! Not only is
God with us, but He will be with us. With us as individuals; with us as
families; with us as churches. Is not the very name of Jesus, Emmanuel -- God
with us? Is not this the best of all, that God is with us? Let us be bravely
diligent and joyously hopeful. Our cause must prosper, the truth must win, for
the LORD is with those who are with Him. All this day may this sweet word be
enjoyed by every believer who turns to "Faith's Check Book." No greater
happiness is possible.




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A man's views of sin

(William S. Plumer, "The Christian", 1878)

Sin digs every grave, and wrings out every sigh and wail from earth and hell.
Sin is the worst of all evils. Nothing can compare with it. It is worse than
the plague. Sin is unspeakably hateful. God calls it horrible and abominable.
Godly men in every age lament it—lament it much in others, most in themselves.

A man's views of sin give a complexion to all his character. If he regards it
as a trifle, he will laugh at it, when he should weep over it. He will make a
mock of it. He will dally with it. He will take his fill of it. He will have
low thoughts of God, and low estimates of salvation. He will despise Jesus
Christ.

If, on the other hand, he considers sin as very dreadful and very hateful—he
will hate every false way. He will long for holiness. He will hunger and thirst
after righteousness. He will loathe and abhor himself on account of sin. He
will have exalted thoughts of the being, perfections, word, and government of
God. To him Christ will be most precious, the chief among ten thousand, and
altogether lovely.

Job's sense of sin was vastly increased by the great discoveries he had of
God's majesty and glory: "I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear; but
now my eye sees You. Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes!"
Increased views of God's glory had the same effect on Isaiah, and made him cry
out, "Woe is me! for I am undone!" (Job 42:5-6; Isaiah 6:5).

God's presence is infinite; His power is infinite; His nature is infinite; His
existence is infinite; and so to sin against Him must be an infinite insult and
wrong. Sin is an infinite evil. Sin is that abominable thing which He hates. He
hates sin with infinite loathing.






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