Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Saturday April 29, 2017 |
Morning Time: 11:31 AM PST
"Thou art my hope in the day of evil." --Jeremiah 17:17
The path of the Christian is not always bright with sunshine; he has his
seasons of darkness and of storm. True, it is written in God's Word, "Her ways
are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace;" and it is a great truth,
that religion is calculated to give a man happiness below as well as bliss
above; but experience tells us that if the course of the just be "As the shining
light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day," yet sometimes
that light is eclipsed. At certain periods clouds cover the believer's
sun, and he walks in darkness and sees no light. There are many who have
rejoiced in the presence of God for a season; they have basked in the sunshine
in the earlier stages of their Christian career; they have walked along the
"green pastures" by the side of the "still waters," but suddenly they find the
glorious sky is clouded; instead of the Land of Goshen they have to tread the
sandy desert; in the place of sweet waters, they find troubled streams, bitter
to their taste, and they say, "Surely, if I were a child of God, this would not
happen." Oh! say not so, thou who art walking in darkness. The best of God's
saints must drink the wormwood; the dearest of His children must bear the cross.
No Christian has enjoyed perpetual prosperity; no believer can always keep his
harp from the willows. Perhaps the Lord allotted you at first a smooth and
unclouded path, because you were weak and timid. He tempered the wind to the
shorn lamb, but now that you are stronger in the spiritual life, you must enter
upon the riper and rougher experience of God's full-grown children. We need
winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of
self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals
to us the value of our glorious hope.
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