'I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.'

[a mere housewife]

In this promise, God gives to His people everything. "I will never leave thee." Then no attribute of God can cease to be engaged for us. Is He mighty? He will show Himself strong on the behalf of them that trust Him. Is He love? Then with lovingkindness will He have mercy upon us. Whatever attributes may compose the character of Deity, every one of them to its fullest extent shall be engaged on our side. To put everything in one, there is nothing you can want, there is nothing you can ask for, there is nothing you can need in time or in eternity, there is nothing living, nothing dying, there is nothing in this world, nothing in the next world, there is nothing now, nothing at the resurrection-morning, nothing in heaven which is not contained in this text—"I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."

-C.H. Spurgeon

 

[jwithnell]

"... hast thou not seen, how thy desires 'er have been, granted in what he ordaineth? "

 

[Cymro]

I have read somewhere that it reads like this in the original,
I will never, never, never leave thee, nor never never forsake thee.
The repetition five times of never, gives a wonderful assurance and security.

 

[a mere housewife]

Thank you, Jean and Mr. O'Neil. Those are wonderful thoughts.