Charles Spurgeon Commentary Hebrews 11:15

"And if indeed they had been mindful of that [country] from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return." — Hebrews 11:15 (ASV)

And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

Ah, but God's people are not mindful of that country from where they came out! They have opportunity to return, but they have no wish to return.

May God's grace always keep any of you from turning back, for it is to turn back to perdition! Your faces are heavenward today; keep them so.

Remember the doom of any that apostatize. It is impossible, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

Lord, keep your servants! Hold us up, and we shall be safe.

And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from where they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

Abraham, if he wanted to settle down, might have crossed the river once more and gone back to Ur of Chaldees. But he did not look for a city on earth. He was evidently looking for one somewhere else. The country that he sought was not beyond the Euphrates, but beyond the narrow stream of death.