August 21 Evening Devotional | What God Has Not Said | Morning and Evening by Spurgeon

Evening, August 21 | “I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a waste place’.” —Isaiah 45:19 (NASB)

This Evening's Scripture Reading: Isaiah 45:18-19 (NASB)

For thus says the Lord, who created the heavens (He is the God who formed the earth and made it, He established it and did not create it a waste place, but formed it to be inhabited),
“I am the Lord, and there is none else.
I have not spoken in secret,
In some dark land;
I did not say to the offspring of Jacob,
‘Seek Me in a waste place’;
I, the Lord, speak righteousness,
Declaring things that are upright.

Devotional Video Transcript:

We may gain much solace by considering what God has not said. What he has said is inexpressibly full of comfort and delight; what he has not said is scarcely less rich in consolation. It was one of these “said nots” that preserved the kingdom of Israel in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, for “the Lord did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven.” (2 Kings 14:27) In our text, we have an assurance that God will answer prayer, because he “did not say to the offspring of Israel, ‘Seek Me in vain’.”

You who write bitter things against yourselves should remember that – let your doubts and fears say what they will – if God has not cut you off from mercy, there is no room for despair. Even the voice of conscience is of little weight if the voice of God does not second it. What God has said, tremble at! But suffer not your vain imaginings to overwhelm you with despondency and sinful despair. Many timid persons have been vexed by the suspicion that there may be something in God’s decree that shuts them out from hope, but here is a complete refutation to that troublesome fear, for no true seeker can be decreed to wrath. “I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth; I have not said,” even in the secret of my unsearchable decree, “Seek me in vain.”

God has clearly revealed that he will hear the prayer of those who call upon him, and that declaration cannot be contravened. He has so firmly, so truthfully, so righteously spoken, that there can be no room for doubt. He does not reveal his mind in unintelligible words, but he speaks plainly and positively, “Ask, and you shall receive.” Believe, O trembler, this sure truth — that prayer must and shall be heard, and that never, even in the secrets of eternity, has the Lord said unto any living soul, “Seek me in vain.”

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