C.H. Spurgeon
Checkbook of the Bank of Faith
A daily promise from Scripture, with Spurgeon's counsel on how to receive it — endorsed by faith and presented to God in prayer.
June 5
Exodus 11:7
"But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that you may know how that the Lord does put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel."
WHAT! has God power over the tongues of dogs? Can he keep curs from barking? Yes, it is even so. He can even prevent an Egyptian dog from worrying one of the lambs of Israel's flock. Does God silence dogs, and doggish ones among men, and the great dog at hell's gate? Then let us move on our way without fear.
If he lets dogs move their tongues, yet he can stop their teeth. They may make a dreadful noise, and still do us no real harm. Yet, how sweet is quiet! How delightful to move about among enemies, and perceive that God makes them to be at peace with us! Like Daniel in the den of lions, we are unhurt amid destroyers.
Oh, that today, this word of the Lord to Israel might be true to me! Does the dog worry me? I will tell my Lord about him. Lord, he does not care for my pleadings; do you speak the word of power, and he must lie down. Give me peace, O my God, and let me see your hand so distinctly in it that I may most clearly perceive the difference which your grace has made between me and the ungodly!
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C.H. Spurgeon
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