A Covennant Reestablished

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God. We can neither believe nor know anything unless we confide in those laws of belief which God has implanted in our nature.

Charles Hodge*

There is, in the Bible, a promise just exactly suited to your case, so mind that you find it. Did you never send for a locksmith to open a drawer because you had lost the key, and could not open it? He comes with a great bunch of rusty keys—very like God’s promises, which you have allowed to get rusty through not using them—and first he tries one key, and then another, and another, until, at last, he gets the right one, and the treasures in your drawers are spread open before you.

It is just so with the treasures of God’s mercy. There is one special promise in Scripture that will fit the wards of the lock of your experience. You must try promise after promise until, at last, you get the right one, and then you can say to the Lord, as Jacob did, “You yourself said” (Gen 32:12).

Spurgeon, C. (2017). 300 Sermon Illustrations from Charles Spurgeon (E. Ritzema & L. Smoyer, Eds.). Lexham Press.