“Peter answered and said unto him,
Though all men shall be offended because of
thee,
yet will I never be offended”
Matthew 26:33
GOD ONLY, YOU CAN TRUST
“Why,” cries one, “this is no promise of God.”
Just so, but it was a promise of man, and
therefore it came to nothing. Peter thought that
he was saying what he should assuredly carry
out; but a promise which has no better
foundation than a human resolve will fall to the
ground. No sooner did temptations arise than
Peter denied his Master, and used oaths to
confirm his denial.
What is man’s word? An earthen pot broken with a
stroke. What is your own resolve? A blossom,
which, with God’s care, may come to fruit, but
which, left to itself, will fall to the ground
with the first wind that moves the bough.
On man’s word hang only what it will bear.
On thine own resolve depend not at all.
On the promise of thy God hang time and
eternity,
this world and the next,
thine all and the all of all thy beloved ones.
This volume is a checkbook for believers, and
this page is meant as a warning as to what bank
they draw upon, and whose signature they accept.
Rely upon Jesus without limit.
Trust not thyself nor any born of woman,
beyond due bounds;
but trust thou only and wholly in the Lord.
"Lord Dictated Them"
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