Faith's Checkbook (By: C.H. Spurgeon)

May 19, 2011

                                                             We May Speak for God

Therefore thus says the Lord: "If you return, then I will bring you back; you shall stand before Me; if you take out the precious from the vile, you shall be as My mouth."
                                                                           ~ Jeremiah 15:19

  "Poor Jeremiah! The weeping prophet was one of the choicest servants of God and honored by Him above many, yet he was hated for speaking the truth. The word which was so sweet to him was bitter to his hearers, yet he was accepted of his Lord. He was commanded to abide in his faithfulness, and then the Lord would continue to speak through him, "You shall be as My mouth."

  What an honor! Should not every believer covet it? We shall speak sure, pure truth; and we shall speak it with power. Our word shall not return void; it shall be a blessing to those who receive it. Our lips shall feed many. we shall arouse the sleeping and call the dead to life.
  Dear reader, pray that it may be so with all the sent servants of our Lord."
(By: Charles H. Spurgeon ~ One Minute Devotions)