God Only, You Can Trust<\/p>\n
Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended. (Matthew 26:33)<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
On man’s word hang only what it will bear.<\/p>\n
On thine own resolve depend not at all.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
God Only, You Can Trust<\/p>\n
Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended. (Matthew 26:33)<\/p>\n
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