Christian, in all your troubles, look to God and be saved. In all your trials and afflictions, look to Christ and find deliverance. In all your anguish, in all your repentance for your guilt, look to Christ and find pardon.
Bind around yourself a golden chain and fix one link of it to heaven's anchor. There is no stumbling when a person walks with his eyes on Jesus. The one who looks at Christ walks safely.
✦ No Stumbling — Eyes on Jesus
Le's words from Sword Beach: keep your eyes where it is safe. And Spurgeon today: the one who looks at Christ walks safely. Guyon's single eye. Le's fixed eyes. Spurgeon's upward look. Every stumble begins with the eyes moving from Christ to the waves. The path has not changed. The danger has not increased. The only thing that changed was where the eyes were looking. 🙏
Trials teach us what we are. They dig up the soil and let us see what we are made of. They just turn up some of the weeds onto the surface.
Two sentences — and the testing season is explained. Trials are not punishment. They are excavation. They dig up the soil — and what comes to the surface is what was always there. The weeds were not planted by the trial. They were uncovered by it. And what is uncovered can be removed. What stays hidden grows in the dark. 🙏
Virtues without faith are whitewashed sins. Unbelief cancels everything. It is the fly in the ointment; it is the poison in the pot. Without faith — with all the virtues of purity, charity, compassion, genius, patriotism, and principle — you have no claim to divine acceptance, for "without faith it is impossible to please God."
Faith nourishes every virtue; unbelief withers every virtue in the bud. Many a noble enterprise conceived in the heart has been killed before it could come to life by unbelief.
Peter, while he had faith, walked on the waves of the sea. But soon he said, "That wave will sweep me away — that one will overwhelm me!" And as soon as he doubted, he began to sink. Faith was Peter's life preserver — it kept him up; but unbelief sent him down.
The Christian's life may be said to be always "walking on the water," and every wave would swallow him up. But faith enables him to stand. The moment you stop believing, that moment distress and failure follow.
Without faith it is impossible to please God. Faith is my divine connector to pleasing God. The Holy Spirit never lets me forget. 🙏
✦ The Divine Connector
Le compresses Spurgeon's entire passage into one image: the connector. Not virtue. Not talent. Not works. Not the morning devotions, not the journal, not the packing. Faith. The one thing without which everything else is disconnected. The circuit is dead without the connector — and the connector is faith.
The Holy Spirit never lets me forget. John 14:26 — the Helper will remind you of all things. The Spirit's ministry is remembering — bringing to mind what faith needs in the moment of need. Never lets me forget. Present tense. Continuous. Faithful. The divine connector maintained by the divine Reminder. 🙏
"Faith is my divine connector to pleasing God."
Le · The connector · The Holy Spirit never lets me forgetWe carry a lot of baggage — which is our body. We have a mind and a spirit. Jesus is the God who understands it all. He suffered the Cross. He died and He rose again. He is the God who understands. 🙏
✦ He Asks from Experience
Hebrews 4:15 — we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are. He carried the body. He carried the mind. He carried the spirit. He carried the Cross. And He rose.
The God who asks Le to walk by faith is the God who walked by faith Himself — through suffering, through death, through the grave. He does not ask from a distance. He asks from experience. The baggage of the body — He knows it. The struggle of the mind — He knows it. The weight of the spirit in a testing season — He knows it. Because He carried it all. And He rose.
Spurgeon says: look upward. Le says: the God I look up to understands. He is not an abstract deity demanding faith from a throne. He is the God who bled, who wept, who cried out "My God, why have You forsaken Me?" — and who rose. The faith He asks for is the faith He lived. 🙏
Look Upward
No stumbling with eyes on Jesus. Every stumble begins with the eyes moving to the waves. The path hasn't changed. The danger hasn't increased. Only the looking has shifted.
The Divine Connector
Faith is the connector. Without it, virtues are whitewashed sins. The circuit is dead without faith. The Holy Spirit maintains the connection — and never lets me forget.
The God Who Understands
He carried the body, the mind, the spirit, the Cross. He does not ask from a distance. He asks from experience. The faith He requires is the faith He lived.
Spurgeon's sixth day. And today the testing season receives its anchor: look upward — to the God who understands.
Sword Beach — keep your eyes where it is safe: Le's words from day ten. And Spurgeon today: there is no stumbling when a person walks with his eyes on Jesus. The same truth — spoken on the beach where young men fixed their eyes forward and walked into the water. The eyes determine the walk. Always.
Guyon's day nine — unction over argument: "Souls are won by the unction of grace, not the power of argument." And Spurgeon today: virtues without faith are whitewashed sins. The unction is faith at work. The argument is virtue without the connector. All the eloquence in the world, disconnected from faith, produces nothing that pleases God.
Peter — the life preserver: Spurgeon's Peter walked on water while he believed and sank when he doubted. The waves did not change. The faith changed. And in the testing season — the waves of packing, deadlines, transition, stress — the waves do not determine whether Le stands or sinks. The faith does. The connector holds. The Spirit reminds. The eyes stay fixed.
Le's God who understands: Hebrews 4:15. The High Priest who sympathizes. The God who carried the body, the mind, the spirit, the Cross — and rose. He does not ask from a throne. He asks from a tomb that is empty. The faith He requires is the faith He demonstrated. And the baggage Le carries — body, mind, spirit, packing boxes, testing season — He carried heavier. And He rose. 🙏