Have I No Power To Deliver?

 

Evening Devotion

DECEMBER 12

 

…have I no power to deliver?

Isaiah 50:2

 
This is a question for unbelief.
 
For your unbelief.
 
If God can deliver—if he has promised to deliver—why then these fears, this gloom, and this perplexity?
 
Look at your difficulty full in the face, walk round it and examine it on every side, and when you have done so, answer your Lord’s question, “Have I no power to deliver?”
 
You may apply it to sin, its guilt, its power, its consequences.
 
You may apply it to Satan, his malice, his craft, his determined opposition to you.
 
You may apply it to the world, its snares, its persecution, its spirit.
 
You may apply it to any, and all the circumstances in which you can be placed by an adverse providence.
 
Cannot your God deliver you?
 
Is his arm shortened, that it cannot save?
 
Or is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear?
 
If not, why then doubt?
 
Why cast down?
 
Hope thou in God, for thou shalt yet praise him.
 
Grieve him not by your unbelief, but trust in his word, call upon his name, look to his arm, and he will show you that he has power to deliver, and that he will exert it on your behalf.
 
He says, “Call upon me, and I will deliver thee.”
 

Jesus, the wonders of thy name

To-day as yesterday the same,

We all are call’d to prove;

No end is of thy mercies found,

We cannot stop thine arm, or bound

The omnipotence of love.

 
James Smith