God Will Answer

God Will Answer, February 18
Author: Charles H. Spurgeon From the book: Faith's Checkbook

"He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them." - Psalm 145:19

HIS own Spirit has wrought this desire in us, and therefore He will answer it. It is His own life within which prompts the cry, and therefore He will hear it. Those who fear Him are men under the holiest influence, and, therefore, their desire is to glorify God, and enjoy Him forever. Like Daniel, they are men of desires, and the Lord will cause them to realize their aspirations.

Holy desires are grace in the blade, and the heavenly Husbandman will cultivate them till they come to the full corn in the ear. God-fearing men desire to be holy, to be useful, to be a blessing to others, and so to honor their Lord. They desire supplies for their need, help under burdens, guidance in perplexity, deliverance in distress; and sometimes this desire is so strong, and their case so pressing, that they cry out in agony, like little children in pain, and then the Lord works most comprehensively, and does all that is needful, according to this Word - "and will save them."

Yes, if we fear God, we have nothing else to fear; if we cry to the Lord, our salvation is certain.

Let the reader lay this text on his tongue, and keep it in his mouth all the day, and it will be to him as "a wafer made with honey."

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God hears the cry of His children - this speaks SO loudly to me right now. I recently lost a friend of mine to a senseless act of violence. Thankfully, she was a child of God and when she was in pain, when she was full of fear and when He knew her desire - He brought her home to be with her God. No more pain, no more fear. Praise God. Knowing and trusting in the Lord's promise to comfort, to care and save us is as sweet as "a wafer made with honey." Agape.

"54. Whenever I hear anything spoken in conversation of any person, if I think it would be praiseworthy in me, Resolved to endeavor to imitate it. July 8, 1723." - Jonathan Edwards, 70 Resolutions.