“He trusted in God; let Him deliver Him now if He will have Him; for He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” – Matthew 27:43
God does deliver those who trust in Him. God’s interposition for the faithful is not a dream, but a substantial reality. “Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.” All history proves the faithfulness of God. Those who trust God have been in all sorts of troubles; but they have always been delivered. They have been bereaved. What a horrible bereavement was that which fell to the lot of Aaron, when his two sons were struck dead for their profanity in the presence of God! “And Aaron held his peace”! What grace was there! Thus, will the Lord sustain you also should He take away the desire of your eyes with a stroke. Grave after grave has the good man visited till it seemed that his whole race was buried, and yet his heart has not been broken; but he has bowed his soul before the will of the ever-blessed One. Thus has the Lord delivered His afflicted one by sustaining him. In other ways the bush has burned and yet has not been consumed. Remember the multiplied and multiform trials of Job. Yet God sustained him to the end so that he did not charge God foolishly but held fast his faith in the Most High. If ever you are called to the afflictions of Job, you will also be called to the sustaining grace of Job. Some of God’s servants have been defeated in their testimony. They have borne faithful witness for God, but they have been rejected of men. It has been their lot, like Cassandra, to prophesy the truth, but not to be believed. Such was Jeremiah, who was born to a heritage of scorn from those whose benefit he sought. Yet he was delivered. He shrank not from being faithful. His courage could not be silenced. By integrity he was delivered.
Godly men have been despised and misrepresented and yet have been delivered. Remember David and his envious brethren; David and the malignant Saul; David when his men spake of stoning him. Yet he took off the giant’s head; yet he came to the throne; yet the Lord built him a house. Some of God’s servants have been bitterly persecuted, but God has delivered them. ~ C.H. Spurgeon
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