Hopes, False—Failing in Time of Need – Charles Spurgeon

I KNOW of one who, traveling over a pass in Italy, one evening, secured a light to help him over a dangerous and difficult part of the way farther on. It was not needed until the narrow steep descent was reached; in fact, it was in the way until then, but just as the traveler came to the very spot where it was required it went out and left him in utter darkness. So it is full often in the sinner’s experience, who travels in the dark; his lights go out when most needed. Oh! far better then to walk in daylight, using the eye of faith, in the clear sunshine of gospel light from the Sun of Righteousness.