February 23

“/ will never leave thee.” — Hebrews xiii. 5.

^0 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 maj drink. When He openeth a granary-door to give out food, there may be some one starving man who is the occasion of hs being opened, but all hungry saints may come and feed too. Whether He gave the word to Abraham or to Moses, matters not, 0 believer; He has given it to thee as one of the covenanted seed. There is not a high blessing too lofty for thee, nor a wide mercy too extensive for thee. Lift up now thine eyes to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west, for all this is thine. Climb to Pisgah’stop. and view the utmost limit of the divine promise, for the land is all thine own. There is not a brook of living water of which thou mayst not drink. If the land floweth with milk and honey, eat the honey and drink the milk, for both are thine. Be thou bold to believe, for He hath said, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake i/ise.” ‘In this promise, God gives to His people everything, “/will never leave thee.” Then no attribute of God can cease to be engaged for us. Is He mighty? He will show Himself strong on the behalf of them that trust Ilim. Is He love? Then with loving kindness wi)l He have mercy upon us. Whatever attributes may compnr.e the cJiai’aoter of Deity, every one of them to ita fuJJost extent shall be engaged on our side. To put everythi’jg in one, there is nothing you can want, there is nothing you can ask for, is nothing you can need in time or in etoraity, 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 ic heaven which is not contained in this text —” I will nevej ieave thee, nor forsake thee.*’