For My Praise and Glory

…I will help thee… – Isaiah 41:14

And now, just take the last word-“I will help thee.” Lay the stress there. “Fear not, thou worm Jacob; I will help thee.” If I let the stars fall, I will help thee; if I let all nature run to rack and ruin, I will help thee. If I permit the teeth of time to devour the solid pillars upon which the earth doth stand, yet I will help thee. I have made a covenant with the earth, “that seed-time and harvest, summer and winter, shall never cease;” but that covenant, though true, is not so great as the covenant that I have made concerning thee. And if I keep my covenant with the earth, I will certainly keep My covenant with My Son. “Fear not; I will help thee.” Yes, thee! Thou sayest, “I am too little for help;” but I will help thee, to magnify My power; thou sayest, “I am too vile to be helped,” but I will help thee to manifest My grace. Thou sayest, “I have been ungrateful for former help;” but I will help thee to manifest My faithfulness. Thou sayest, “But I shall still rebel, I shall still turn aside.” “I will help thee,” to show forth My long suffering: let it be known, “I will help thee.”

Now just conceive my Master on His cross bleeding there, looking down on you and on me. Picture Him, whilst His voice falters with love and misery conjoined; and hear Him. He has just now spoken to the thief, and He has said to him, “To-day, shalt thou be with Me in Paradise.” And after He has said that, He catches a sight of you and of me, poor and depressed, and He says, “Fear not, worm Jacob; I will help thee; I helped the thief-I will help thee. I promised him that he should be with Me in paradise; I may well promise thee that thou shalt be helped. I will help thee.” O Master! may Thy love that prompts Thee thus to speak, prompt us to believe Thee.~ C.H. Spurgeon

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