Key Verse: "Let your conversation be
without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he
hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."
- Hebrews 13:5 KJV
No promise is of private interpretation. Whatever God has said to any one saint—He has said to all. When He opens a well for one, it is that all may drink. When He opens a granary-door to give out food, there may be some one starving man who is the occasion of its being opened—but all hungry saints may come and feed too. Whether He gave the Word to Abraham or to Moses, matters not, O believer; He has given it to you as one of the covenanted seed. There is not a high blessing too lofty for you, nor a wide mercy too extensive for you. Lift up now your eyes to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west—for all this is yours! Climb to Pisgah's top, and view the utmost limit of the divine promise—for the land is all your own! There is not a brook of living water—of which you may not drink. If the land flows with milk and honey, eat the honey and drink the milk, for both are yours. Be bold to believe, for He has said, "I will never leave you, nor forsake you."
In this promise, God gives everything to His people. "I
will never leave you." Then no attribute of God can cease to be
engaged for us. Is He mighty? He will show Himself strong on the
behalf of those who trust Him. Is He love? Then with loving-kindness
will He have mercy upon us. Whatever attributes may compose the character of
Deity, every one of them to its fullest extent, shall be engaged on our
side. To put everything in one—there is nothing you can lack, there is
nothing you can ask for, there is nothing you can need in time or in
eternity, there is nothing living, nothing dying, there is nothing in this
world, nothing in the next world, there is nothing now, nothing at the
resurrection morning, nothing in heaven which is not contained in this text,
"I will never leave you, nor forsake you!"
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