Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you… John Owen, in a letter dictated to his friend, Charles Heetwood, says, "Live and pray, hope and wait patiently, and do not despond; the promise stands invincible, that He will never leave nor forsake us." Forcibly are the negatives in this passage rendered by Kirkham, in his well-known hynm: "The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose, I will not, I will not desert to His foes; That soul, though all hell should endeavour to shake, I'll never, no never, no never forsake."How sad the confession of Cardinal Wolsey, when he was leaving the world: "Had I been but as careful to please God as I have been to serve my prince, He would not have forsaken me now in the time of my grey hairs!" How beautifully in contrast with his were the last moments of Mrs. Isabella Brown! A quarter of an hour before she died she was reading a list of Scripture promises: and, noticing particularly this tender declaration, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee," she said, faintly: "Oh, they are sweet!" After her death the list was found on her breast with her hand upon it. Parallel Verses KJV: Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. |
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