Greatness Of God To Save

“GREATNESS OF GOD TO SAVE”

(Isaiah 60:8)

“Who are these who fly like a cloud And like the doves to their lattices?”

Not a convert now and then, like a meteor, a thing we see but seldom, which flashes across the sky, rejoices the darkness, and then is gone; not now and then a convert, as a rara avis, -a spiritual prodigy. “But who are these?” saith she, “who fly as a cloud?” She wonders at their number. But, my brethren, why should we be astonished? Did not the apostle Peter become the instrument of converting three thousand under one sermon?  And have we not heard of Whitfield, that while ten thousand listened to him, it has been known that two thousand at a time have felt the power of God manifested in their hearts? And why should we wonder if hundreds

were brought to God now? “Is his arm shortened, that he cannot save? Is his ear heavy, that he cannot hear?” Have we not cried unto the God of Jacob; and is anything impossible to him?

[Spurgeon, MTP, Vol. 1, p. 123]