11. God hath spoken once. So immutable is God that
he need not speak twice, as though he had changed; so infallible, that one
utterance suffices, for he cannot err; so omnipotent, that his solitary word
achieves all his designs. We speak often and say nothing; God speaks once and
utters eternal verities. Twice have I heard this. Our meditative soul
should hear the echo of God’s voice again and again. He hears twice in the best
sense who hears with his heart as well as his ears. That power belongeth unto God. He is the source of it, and in him it actually abides. This one
voice of God we ought always to hear, so as to be preserved from putting our
trust in creatures in whom there can be no power, since all power is in God.
What reason for faith is here! It can never be unwise to rest upon the almighty
arm. Out of all troubles he can release us, under all burdens sustain us, while
men must fail us at the last, and may deceive us even now.
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