Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Monday February 27, 2017 |
Morning Time: 1:54 AM PST
"Thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the Most High, thy
habitation." --Psalm 91:9
The Israelites in the wilderness were continually exposed to change.
Whenever the pillar stayed its motion, the tents were pitched; but tomorrow, ere
the morning sun had risen, the trumpet sounded, the ark was in motion, and the
fiery, cloudy pillar was leading the way through the narrow defiles of the
mountain, up the hillside, or along the arid waste of the wilderness. They had
scarcely time to rest a little before they heard the sound of "Away! this is not
your rest; you must still be onward journeying towards Canaan!" They were never
long in one place. Even wells and palm trees could not detain them. Yet they had
an abiding home in their God, His cloudy pillar was their roof-tree, and its
flame by night their household fire. They must go onward from place to place,
continually changing, never having time to settle, and to say, "Now we are
secure; in this place we shall dwell." "Yet," says Moses, "though we are always
changing, Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place throughout all generations."
The Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich to-day and poor
to-morrow; he may be sickly to-day and well to-morrow; he may be in happiness
to-day, to-morrow he may be distressed--but there is no change with regard to
his relationship to God. If He loved me yesterday, He loves me to-day. My
unmoving mansion of rest is my blessed Lord. Let prospects be blighted; let
hopes be blasted; let joy be withered; let mildews destroy everything; I have
lost nothing of what I have in God. He is "my strong habitation whereunto I can
continually resort." I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In the
earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.
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