" I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness." - Isaiah 41:10.

Even in the giving of promises, God has made manifest that he giveth liberally and upbraideth not. The necessity of reiterating promises, is sometimes irksome to us; we want people to take us at our word. But God knows the stupendous strength of unbelief in the heart of man. If a mountain of granite is to be reduced to powder by successive strokes of an instrument, there must be a vast number of strokes. If we wish to form some conception of the nature of unbelief let us look at the mighty stores of promise accumulated with a view to its overthrow. The guilt of it, who can tell? God says, " I will strengthen thee;" yet we dare not go forward without a weapon. He says, " I will help thee;" yet we lie down miserable if there be no provision in the house for the morrow's wants. He says, "I will uphold thee;" yet we shrink from taking up some responsibility pointed out to us by him. " I will uphold thee," he says, " by the right hand of my righteousness; I pledge my own infinite ability that thou shalt prevail; I pledge my righteousness; so that if I uphold thee not, my righteousness remains to me no more: my justice is forfeited; I am become like the gods of the heathen, unholy, not to be relied on. Wilt thou make me such a one?"

Oh, that Christians would consider how grossly they asperse the character of God and misrepresent him to the world, by failing to embrace and act upon these exceeding great and precious promises.