Morning & Evening Devotional Reading–

November 9– Evening

by C. H. Spurgeon, revised and edited by W. C. Neff

“His place of defense will be among the rocks; his bread and water will be surely provided.”

—Isaiah 33:16

Do you doubt, O Christian, whether God will fulfill his promise? Will the Rocky mountainside be carried off by a storm? Will heaven’s pantry ever be empty? Do you think that your heavenly Father, though he knows you need food and clothing, will forget you? When not even a sparrow falls to the ground without your Father and the very hairs of your head are all numbered, will you mistrust and doubt him? Perhaps your affliction will continue until you dare to trust your God, and then it will end.

There are many who have been tried and sorely troubled until at last they have been driven in sheer desperation to exercise faith in God. The moment of their faith became the instance of their deliverance. They have seen whether God would keep his promise or not. I pray that you will doubt Him no longer! Stop pleasing Satan and troubling yourself by indulging any longer in cruel thoughts of God. Don’t view doubting Jehovah is an insignificant matter; it is a sin– and not a little one either, but is in the highest degree criminal.

The angels don’t doubt God, and neither do demons. We alone, out of all the beings that God has fashioned, dishonor him by unbelief and tarnish his honor by mistrust. Shame on us for doing this! Our God does not deserve to be so dishonorably suspected. Our past lives have proved him to be true and faithful to his word. With so many instances of his love and kindness as we have received and are daily receiving at his hands, it is dishonorable and inexcusable to allow doubt to live within our heart.

May we from this time forward wage constant war against such doubts of our God. They are enemies to our peace and to His honor. With an unswaggering faith we should believe that what He has promised He will also perform. “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief.” [M&E]