Streams in the Desert by L.B. Cowman confirmed a beautiful scripture, "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
Call Upon the Lord
Call Upon the Lord
"And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered" (Joel 2:32).
Why do not I call on His name? Why do I run to this neighbor and that
when God is so near and will hear my faintest call? Why do I sit down
and devise schemes and invent plans? Why not at once roll myself and my
burden upon the Lord?
Straightforward is the best runner--why do not I run at once to the
living God? In vain shall I look for "deliverance anywhere else; but
with God I shall find it; for here I have His royal shall to make it
sure.
I need not ask whether I may call on Him or not, for that word
"Whosoever" is a very wide and comprehensive one. Whosoever means me,
for it means anybody and everybody who calls upon God. I will therefore
follow the leading of the text, and at once call upon the glorious Lord
who has made so large a promise.
My case is urgent, and I do not see how I am to be delivered; but this
is no business of mine. He who makes the promise will find ways and
means of keeping it. It is mine to obey His commands; it is not mine to
direct His counsels. I am His servant, not His solicitor. I call upon
Him, and He will deliver. --C. H. Spurgeon
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