{"id":6139,"date":"2022-01-11T07:21:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T07:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6139"},"modified":"2022-01-11T07:21:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T07:21:17","slug":"%ef%bb%bfwhat-do-you-depend-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6139","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffWhat do you depend on?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What do you depend on?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

from Spurgeon\u2019s, \u201cTHE CEDARS OF LEBANON\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O Christian. You are to live expecting nothing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

from man, and you shall never be disappointed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are to live looking upon the Lord alone, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

there again disappointment shall never come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Understand that one of God\u2019s objects with you is to<\/p>\n\n\n\n

knock away every prop from you, to take away every<\/p>\n\n\n\n

buttress, and to make you lean upon God alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is the round world, what bears it up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God hangs the world upon nothing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are what you should be, you are just like that earth \u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

you have no visible support \u2014 there is nothing upon which<\/p>\n\n\n\n

you can depend that the carnal eye can see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But yet as the earth moves not and falls not from her orbit, so you,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by the power of faith, shall be maintained and kept just where you are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but they<\/p>\n\n\n\n

that wait on the Lord shall not lack any good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a life\u2019s work to learn independence of the creature, and almost<\/p>\n\n\n\n

another life\u2019s work to learn dependence upon the Creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To wean us from the breasts of this world is a long and painful process;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to get us clean rid of that walking by sight, which is the disease of man,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and to bring us to walk by faith in the Spirit, which is the glory of a<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christian, this is a work well worthy of a God, and blessed is the man<\/p>\n\n\n\n

who has this work to a great extent accomplished in himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The best Christians are those who are most<\/p>\n\n\n\n

delivered from confidence in the creature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In proportion as men become little in self and little in creature love and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

creature trust, they become great and mighty in their doings for the Lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do feel, brethren, more and more, that my soul must wait only<\/p>\n\n\n\n

upon the Lord, and that my expectation must be from him alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You too, must come here, and learn that the Lord will provide, but<\/p>\n\n\n\n

it is only in the mount of the Lord that this sweet truth can be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What do you depend on? from Spurgeon\u2019s, \u201cTHE CEDARS OF LEBANON\u201d O Christian. You are to live expecting nothing from man, and you shall never be disappointed. You are to live looking upon the Lord alone, and there again disappointment shall never come. Understand that one of God\u2019s objects with you is to knock away […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6140,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6139\/revisions\/6140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}