Many have forsaken Christ, and have walked no more
with Him; but what reason have YOU to make a
change? Has there been any reason for it in the past?
Has not Jesus proved Himself all-sufficient? He
appeals to you this morning—Have I been a
wilderness unto you? When your soul has simply
trusted Jesus, have you ever been confounded? Have
you not up till now found your Lord to be a
compassionate and generous friend to you, and has
not simple faith in Him given you all the peace your
spirit could desire? Can you so much as dream of a
better friend than He has been to you? Then change
not the old and tried for new and false. As for the
present, can that compel you to leave Christ? When
we are hard beset with this world, or with the severer
trials within the Church, we find it a most blessed
thing to pillow our head upon the bosom of our
Savior. This is the joy we have to-day that we are
saved in Him; and if this joy be satisfying, wherefore
should we think of changing? Who barters gold for
dross? We will not forswear the sun till we find a
better light, nor leave our Lord until a brighter lover
shall appear; and, since this can never be, we will hold
Him with a grasp immortal, and bind His name as a
seal upon our arm. As for the future, can you suggest
anything which can arise that shall render it
necessary for you to mutiny, or desert the old flag to
serve under another captain? We think not. If life be
long—He changes not. If we are poor, what better than
to have Christ who can make us rich? When we are
sick, what more do we want than Jesus to make our
bed in our sickness? When we die, is it not written
that neither death, nor life, nor things present, nor
things to come, shall be able to separate us from the
love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord! We
say with Peter "Lord, to whom shall we go"?
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