Jehovah Shammah

posted by Diana Durrill

"And the name of the city from that time on shall be, The LORD Is There." - Ezekiel 48:35 

 Beloved, have not you always found that not only your faith, but all your good works are the subjects of Satan’s attacks? I never yet had a virtue or possessed a Divine Grace but what it was sure to be the target for hellish bullets, whether it was Hope, bright and sparkling, or Love, warm and fervent, or Patience, all enduring, or Zeal, flaming like coals of fire; the old enemy of everything that is good has tried, if he could, to destroy or mar it! And why is it that anything virtuous or lovely survives in you? There can be no reason given except this, “God is there.” God dwells in His people! Every good thing which springs up in the human heart is an emanation from the indwelling Deity, and being such, the Destroyer may vent his malice upon it, but as the waves are broken against the rocks, so shall his cruel spite be broken against the power of the Most High God—God is in it!

C.H. Spurgeon - October 25, 1863