Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Friday August 5, 2022 |
Evening Time: 5:30 PM PST
"Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?" --Numbers 32:6
Kindred has its obligations. The Reubenites and Gadites would have been
unbrotherly if they had claimed the land which had been conquered, and had left
the rest of the people to fight for their portions alone. We have received much
by means of the efforts and sufferings of the saints in years gone by, and if we
do not make some return to the church of Christ by giving her our best energies,
we are unworthy to be enrolled in her ranks. Others are combating the errors of
the age manfully, or excavating perishing ones from amid the ruins of the fall,
and if we fold our hands in idleness we had need be warned, lest the curse of
Meroz fall upon us. The Master of the vineyard saith, "Why stand ye here all the
day idle?" What is the idler's excuse? Personal service of Jesus becomes all the
more the duty of all because it is cheerfully and abundantly rendered by some.
The toils of devoted missionaries and fervent ministers shame us if we sit still
in indolence. Shrinking from trial is the temptation of those who are at ease in
Zion: they would fain escape the cross and yet wear the crown; to them the
question for this evening's meditation is very applicable. If the most precious
are tried in the fire, are we to escape the crucible? If the diamond must be
vexed upon the wheel, are we to be made perfect without suffering? Who hath
commanded the wind to cease from blowing because our bark is on the deep? Why
and wherefore should we be treated better than our Lord? The firstborn felt the
rod, and why not the younger brethren? It is a cowardly pride which would choose
a downy pillow and a silken couch for a soldier of the cross. Wiser far is he
who, being first resigned to the divine will, groweth by the energy of grace to
be pleased with it, and so learns to gather lilies at the cross foot, and, like
Samson, to find honey in the lion.
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