I will never leave thee

​“Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.” (Genesis 29:15)

What assurance there is in the word of God. The promise may not have been manifested but we serve a God that cannot lie, and what he promised will come to pass. We have to hold to that promise like Jacob. No matter what we face today, the God that we serve will not leave us. 

“Here we have this promise in the case of a man of trials. More than either Abraham or Isaac, Jacob was the son of tribulation. He was now flying away from his father’s house, leaving the over-fondness of a mother’s attachment, abhorred by his elder brother, who sought his blood. He lies down to sleep, with a stone for his pillow, with the hedges for his curtains, with the earth for his bed, and the heavens for his canopy; and as he sleeps thus friendless, solitary, and alone, God saith to him ‘I will never, never leave thee.’

Jacob is guided to Padan-aram where Laban cheats him, wickedly and wrongfully cheats him in many ways; but God does not leave him…Esau comes against him; let Jabbok testify to Jacob’s wrestlings, and through the power of him who never did forsake his servant. Esau kisses his brother, whom once he thought to slay…Then the nations roundabout seek to avenge their death, but the Lord again interposes, and Jacob is delivered. 

When Jacob was bereaved of his sons and cried— ‘Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and now ye will take Benjamin away; all these things are against me.’ The old man goes into Egypt; his lips are refreshed while he kisses the cheeks of his favourite Joseph. 

We are Jacobs, full of affliction, tried and troubled heirs of heaven, he hath said to us, each one of us - oh! believe him!— ‘I will never leave thee; I will never forsake thee.’”
 
“He hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” (Hebrews 13:5)

GiGi❤️

Taken from: Charles Haddon Spurgeon October 26, 1862. Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 8

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