Our Unfailing Friend

…He loved them unto the end. – John 13:1

If these things be so, that Christ loves His own to the end, let us not indulge the wicked thought that He will forsake us. It is impossible that Jesus should leave a soul that hangs upon Him. You may be brought very low, but still underneath you shall be the everlasting arms. You may feel as if you were crushed by the wheels of providence, your spirit may sink nearly into despair, but neither “things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate you from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus your Lord.” Give not way to the fainting-fit of unbelief; believe in Christ, and not in your own feelings; believe in His promise and not in your own frames. What matters it whether it is day or night with you, whether it is winter or summer? Christ Jesus is the same, and He has said, “Because I live, ye shall live also.” Resort to your unfailing Friend; lean on the arm whose sinews cannot crack; cast your weight on the shoulders, which cannot grow weary. Play the man, and be of good courage, for the honor of the gospel; for if the gospel does not cheer us in time of trouble, what is the good of it? If it will not buoy us up when the floods are out, where is the service of it? But, my brethren and sisters, it will. We are not of those who have to deal with a vacillating Redeemer, who casts away His people for their sins, and rejects them for their backslidings, who loves His own to-day and hates them to-morrow-a Christ in whom I have no confidence, and in whose existence I do not believe; but we have to deal with one who is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever; one who never did flinch from His purpose, nor turn from His decree; and having to deal with such a one, let us not dishonor His name by wavering, and doubting, and fearing. Cast yourselves on the Lord, ye mourners, and rejoice in Him; lean yourselves upon Him, ye burdened ones, and take up your psalm of praise and go on your way rejoicing. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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