…let Him deliver Him now if He will have Him… – Matthew 27:43
The taunt is specially pointed and personal. It is put thus: “He trusted on the Lord that He would deliver Him: let Him deliver Him”; “Do not come to us with your fiddle-faddle about God’s helping all His chosen. Here is a man who is one of His people, will He help him? Do not talk to us big things about Jehovah at the Red Sea, or in the Desert of Sinai, or God helping His people in ages past. Here is a living man before us who trusted in God that He would deliver him: let Him deliver him now.” You know how Satan will pick out one of the most afflicted, and pointing his fingers at him will cry, “Let Him deliver HIM.”…If one promise of God to one of His people should fail, that one failure would suffice to mar the veracity of the Lord to all eternity; they would publish it in the “Diabolical Gazette,” and in every street of Tophet they would howl it out, “God has failed. God has broken His promise. God has ceased to be faithful to His people.” It would then be a horrible reproach-“He trusted in God to deliver him, but He did not deliver him.”
If God does not deliver His servants at one time as well as another, He has not kept His promise. For a man of truth is always true, and a promise once given always stands. A promise cannot be broken now and then, and yet the honour of the person giving it be maintained by his keeping it at other times. The word of a true man stands always good: it is good now. This is logic, bitter logic, cold steel logic, logic which seems to cut right down your backbone and cleave your spine. “He trusted on the Lord that He would deliver him: let Him deliver him now.” Yet this hard logic can be turned to comfort…Our God whom we serve will deliver us. We will not bow down to modern thought nor worship the image which human wisdom has set up. Our God is God both of hills and of valleys. He will not fail His servants, albeit that for a while He forbears that He may try their faith. We dare accept the test, and say, “Let Him deliver us now.” ~ C.H. Spurgeon
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