Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Monday February 12, 2024 |
Morning Time: 10:32 AM PST
"For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also
aboundeth by Christ." --2 Corinthians 1:5
There is a blessed proportion. The Ruler of Providence bears a pair of
scales--in this side He puts His people's trials, and in that He puts their
consolations. When the scale of trial is nearly empty, you will always find the
scale of consolation in nearly the same condition; and when the scale of trials
is full, you will find the scale of consolation just as heavy. When the black
clouds gather most, the light is the more brightly revealed to us. When the
night lowers and the tempest is coming on, the Heavenly Captain is always
closest to His crew. It is a blessed thing, that when we are most cast down,
then it is that we are most lifted up by the consolations of the Spirit. One
reason is, because trials make more room for consolation. Great hearts
can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of
comfort deeper, and makes more room for consolation. God comes into our
heart--He finds it full--He begins to break our comforts and to make it empty;
then there is more room for grace. The humbler a man lies, the more comfort he
will always have, because he will be more fitted to receive it. Another reason
why we are often most happy in our troubles, is this--then we have the
closest dealings with God. When the barn is full, man can live without God:
when the purse is bursting with gold, we try to do without so much prayer. But
once take our gourds away, and we want our God; once cleanse the
idols out of the house, then we are compelled to honour Jehovah. "Out of the
depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord." There is no cry so good as that which
comes from the bottom of the mountains; no prayer half so hearty as that which
comes up from the depths of the soul, through deep trials and afflictions. Hence
they bring us to God, and we are happier; for nearness to God is happiness.
Come, troubled believer, fret not over your heavy troubles, for they are the
heralds of weighty mercies.
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