Faith's Checkbook

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Dec 24

December 24
Over Jordan with Singing
Thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee. (Deuteronomy 33:29)
That archenemy, the devil, is a liar from the beginning; but he is so very plausible that, like mother
Eve, we are led to believe him. Yet in our experience, we shall prove him a liar.
He says that we shall fall from grace, dishonor our profession, and perish with the doom of apostates;
but, trusting in the Lord Jesus, we shall hold on our way and prove that Jesus loses none whom His
Father gave Him. He tells us that our bread will fail, and we shall starve with our children; yet the
Feeder of the ravens has not forgotten us yet, and He will never do so but will prepare us a table in
the presence of our enemies.
He whispers that the Lord will not deliver us Out of the trial looming in the distance, and he
threatens that the last ounce will break the camel's back. What a liar he is! For the Lord will never
leave us or forsake us. "Let him deliver him now!" cries the false fiend: but the Lord will silence him by
coming to our rescue.
He takes great delight in telling us that death will prove too much for us. "How wilt thou do in the
swelling of Jordan?" But there also he shall prove a liar unto us, and we shall pass through the river
singing psalms of glory.