A Sure Guide
The Lord guides us through the way of salvation, opening our eyes and leading us to glory.
C.H. Spurgeon emphasizes the profound grace of God as a Guide for the spiritually blind, illustrating how, in our natural state, we are unable to find the way to salvation. He highlights that, despite our blindness to the future and the path ahead, the Lord leads us with wisdom and care, ensuring our safe passage through life. Spurgeon encourages believers to trust in the Lord's guidance, surrendering their uncertainties and fears to Him. Ultimately, he assures that when we reach our heavenly home, we will be filled with gratitude for the divine guidance we received along the way.
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I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not. (Isaiah 42:16)
Think of the infinitely glorious Jehovah acting as a Guide to the blind! What boundless condescension does this imply! A blind man cannot find a way which he does not know. Even when he knows the road, it is hard for him to traverse it; but a road which he has not known is quite out of the question for his unguided feet. Now, we are by nature blind as to the way of salvation, and yet the Lord leads us into it and brings us to Himself, and then opens our eyes. As to the future, we are all of us blind and cannot see an hour before us; but the Lord Jesus will lead us even to our journey's end.
Blessed be His name!
We cannot guess in which way deliverance can possibly come to us, but the Lord knows, and He will lead us till we shall have escaped every danger. Happy are those who place their hand in that of the great Guide and leave their way and themselves entirely with Him. He will bring them all the way; and when He has brought them home to glory and has opened their eyes to see the way by which He has led them, what a song of gratitude will they sing unto their great Benefactor! Lord, lead Thy poor blind child this day, for I know not my way!
Sermon Outline
- The Blind Guided by Jehovah
- The Way of Salvation
- The Future and Deliverance
- Man's Inability to See the Future
- Jehovah's Knowledge and Guidance
Key Quotes
“I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not.” — C.H. Spurgeon
“What boundless condescension does this imply!” — C.H. Spurgeon
“Blessed be His name!” — C.H. Spurgeon
Application Points
- We should trust in the Lord's guidance and leave our way and ourselves entirely with Him.
- We should be grateful for the Lord's condescension and guidance in our lives.
- We should place our hand in the Lord's hand and follow His guidance.