Not Return Void

A dear friend of mine shared this quote with me recently.  

 

“No sinner around you will be saved except by the knowledge of the great truths contained in the Word of God.  No man will ever be brought to repentance, to faith and life in Christ, apart from the constant application of the Truth through the Spirit.”  1891  Charles Spurgeon

 

While pondering the miracle of my seventy-six year old dad coming to the Savior recently, I was reminded that he was surrounded by the Word for the past thirty years.  I had almost forgotten of my zeal when I was a baby Christian back in 1977.  But rummaging through his workshop in the basement, I found several wooden plaques that I had engraved with Scripture.  My dad kept those Scriptures on his work table all these years. I can’t begin to describe the surge of emotions that surfaced this morning. We must never give up on our loved ones.

 

In Isaiah 55:11, God Himself declares: “So shall my Word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” Never give up sowing the good seed…the Apostle Paul also understood this principle when he stated: ”But this I say, He which sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; and he which sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.”   2Co 9:6