Let Israel hope in the LORD… – Psalm 130:7

Lay the foundation of your hope in the Lord; go on building up your comfort in the Lord Jesus; and in Him bring forth the topstone. Begin with Christ, and end with Christ. As Christ grows more to you, take care that self grows less and less. If your Christianity puffs you up, it is not Christ’s Christianity. Read in the Second of Chronicles, chapter twenty-six, at the fifteenth verse- “(Uzziah) was marvellously helped, till he was strong.” When he became strong, he went off the lines, and we read, “When he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction.” Mind that. God will always help us while we are weak. When we are strong, what shall I say?- then are we weak, and have need to fear, for we are being lifted up already, or we should not count ourselves strong- poor, puny creatures that we are! God will always bless us as long as we confess our dependence upon His blessing. He will always fill us as long as we are empty. He will always feed us as long as we are hungry. He will be your all in all so long as you are nothing. But the moment you boast in yourself, and say, “I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing,” you will be left to learn that you are naked, and poor, and miserable. Nebuchadnezzar is proud, and soon finds a rapid descent from the throne to eating grass like the cattle. Worms, in the presence of the Lord, do all they may do when they hope, they do all they can do when they hope in Him. They have nothing but sin, and He has mercy upon them. They are slaves to evil, but He has plenteous redemption wherewith to set them free. The poorest, weakest, saddest among us may hope in the Lord, for He can do all things: wherefore, let us continue in our faith in “the God of hope,” till we receive the heaven we hope for through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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