James Nisbet Commentary - 2 Timothy 2:13 - 2:13

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UNCHANGING FAITHFULNESS

‘If we believe not, yet He abideth faithful: He cannot deny himself.’

2Ti_2:13

There is no believer in the whole world—however long he may have believed, and however strong his faith may have grown—who has not seasons of partial, if not of entire, unbelief! Who has not known those times of dimmed sight, or of clouded vision, or of dark night?

The antidote is in God.

I. God cannot contradict or deny His own word.—What He has once said, that stands for ever and ever.

II. God cannot contradict or renounce His own character.

III. ‘God cannot deny’ what He is.—It is the nature of Deity—it revolves within itself—the great I AM. Independent of all external influences or analogies. He is not ‘yea’ to-day and ‘nay’ to-morrow; but ‘yea and amen’; and every day ‘amen’ to the ‘yea’ of yesterday.

IV. Always seek your confidences rather in what God is, than in what you are.—Do not look down to the restless vacillations of your own uncertain heart; but keep your eye steadily on the eternity of God.

—
Rev. James Vaughan.

Illustration

‘One of the greatest of men that ever ruled on this earth—(some will say amongst the best, and some will say amongst the worst of men, that ever lived)—said, on his dying bed, words to this effect: “Was I ever converted? Did I ever love God? If I did, I die happy. God cannot change, and His work cannot fail.” There was a great truth in his words; but the last day alone can tell whether the conditions of his hope were fulfilled, and whether his conversion is now and for ever real!’