Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Thursday December 5, 2019 |
Evening Time: 12:43 PM PST
"And the Lord shewed me four carpenters." --Zechariah 1:20
In the vision described in this chapter, the prophet saw four terrible horns.
They were pushing this way and that way, dashing down the strongest and the
mightiest; and the prophet asked, "What are these?" The answer was, "These are
the horns which have scattered Israel." He saw before him a representation of
those powers which had oppressed the church of God. There were four horns; for
the church is attacked from all quarters. Well might the prophet have felt
dismayed; but on a sudden there appeared before him four carpenters. He
asked, "What shall these do?" These are the men whom God hath found to break
those horns in pieces. God will always find men for His work, and He will
find them at the right time. The prophet did not see the carpenters
first, when there was nothing to do, but first the "horns," and then the
"carpenters." Moreover, the Lord finds enough men. He did not find three
carpenters, but four; there were four horns, and there must be four
workmen. God finds the right men; not four men with pens to write; not
four architects to draw plans; but four carpenters to do rough work. Rest
assured, you who tremble for the ark of God, that when the "horns" grow
troublesome, the "carpenters" will be found. You need not fret concerning the
weakness of the church of God at any moment; there may be growing up in
obscurity the valiant reformer who will shake the nations: Chrysostoms may come
forth from our Ragged Schools, and Augustines from the thickest darkness of
London's poverty. The Lord knows where to find His servants. He hath in ambush a
multitude of mighty men, and at His word they shall start up to the battle; "for
the battle is the Lord's," and He shall get to Himself the victory. Let us abide
faithful to Christ, and He, in the right time, will raise up for us a defence,
whether it be in the day of our personal need, or in the season of peril to His
Church.
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