Faith's Checkbook by C.H. Spurgeon

I read this today and it ministered to my heart. I pray it does yours too.
~Rose
========================================
Faith's Checkbook by C.H. Spurgeon
Saturday May 19, 2007
Read more devotionals here.
========================================
We May Speak for God

Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou return, then will I bring thee
again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the
precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth. (Jeremiah 15:19)

Poor Jeremiah! Yet why do we say so? The weeping prophet was one of the
choicest servants of God and honored by Him above many. He was hated
for speaking the truth. The word which was so sweet to him was bitter to
his hearers, yet he was accepted of his Lord. He was commanded to abide
in his faithfulness, and then the Lord would continue to speak through
him. He was to deal boldly and truthfully with men and perform the
Lord's winnowing work upon the professors of his day, and then the Lord
gave him this word: "Thou shalt be as my mouth."

What an honor! Should not every preacher, yea, every believer, covet
it? For God to speak by us, what a marvel! We shall speak sure, pure
truth; and we shall speak it with power. Our word shall not return void; it
shall be a blessing to those who receive it, and those who refuse it
shall do so at their peril. Our lips shall feed many. We shall arouse the
sleeping and call the dead to life.

O dear reader, pray that it may be so with all the sent servants of our
Lord.