Provider and Pardoner

“Yea, forty years didst Thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing: their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not. Their children also multipliedest as the stars of heaven, and Thou broughtest them into the land, concerning which Thou hadst promised to their fathers that they should go in to possess it.”- Nehemiah 9:21, 23

Nehemiah also notices that God did not stint them in their daily provisions, notwithstanding their offenses. “Yea,” says he, “Thou withheldest not Thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.” I am struck with wonder to think that God should have caused His manna still to fall. They provoked Moses and they set up Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, but that very morning God’s bread was in their mouths. They came up to speak against God and against His servant, but their tongues would have been cleaving to the roof of their mouths for thirst if that very morning they had not drunk of the water which God had given them. When dependent persons will persist in disregarding our remonstrances and violating our rules, we are driven to stop the supplies. But the Lord did not stop the supplies even in this urgent case. Would not famine and drought have brought them to their senses? If there had been no food for the women and children, and no drink for the strong men, would not that have tamed them? Even lions and savage beasts may be thus subdued. But no, their bread was given them, and their water was sure. Was He not a God ready to pardon? Yes, and I know a people who, despite their sins, have already taken possession of many a gracious promise, so that they already dwell in the midst of covenant blessings. I know a people too who, notwithstanding their sins, shall enter into rest. “He shall surely bring them in,” for He will bring His chosen into His glory, and they shall see His face with joy. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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