Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
I shall have no time to dwell upon the last source of comfort, which is what the Lord has spoken to us many precious promises. “﻿Nor would he have told us such things as these.﻿” At almost any time when a child of God is depressed, if he goes to the Word of God and to prayer, and looks up, he will generally get a hold of some promise or other. I know I generally do. I could not tell you, dear brother, tonight, what promise would suit your case, but the Lord always knows how to apply the right word at the right time; and when a promise is applied with great power to the soul, and you are enabled to plead it at the mercy-seat, you may say, “﻿If the Lord had meant to kill us, he would not have made us such a promise as this.﻿” I have a promise that hangs up before my eyes whenever I wake every morning, and it has continued in its place for years. It is a stay to my soul. It is this: “﻿I will not fail thee nor forsake thee.﻿” Difficulties arise, funds run short, sickness comes; but somehow or other my text always seems to flow like a fountain “﻿I will not fail thee nor forsake thee.﻿” If the Lord had meant to kill us, he would not have said that to us.
