Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Sunday April 30, 2017 |
Morning Time: 12:20 AM PST
"And all the children of Israel murmured." --Numbers 14:2
There are murmurers amongst Christians now, as there were in the camp of
Israel of old. There are those who, when the rod falls, cry out against the
afflictive dispensation. They ask, "Why am I thus afflicted? What have I done to
be chastened in this manner?" A word with thee, O murmurer! Why shouldst thou
murmur against the dispensations of thy heavenly Father? Can He treat thee more
hardly than thou deservest? Consider what a rebel thou wast once, but He has
pardoned thee! Surely, if He in His wisdom sees fit now to chasten thee, thou
shouldst not complain. After all, art thou smitten as hardly as thy sins
deserve? Consider the corruption which is in thy breast, and then wilt thou
wonder that there needs so much of the rod to fetch it out? Weigh thyself, and
discern how much dross is mingled with thy gold; and dost thou think the fire
too hot to purge away so much dross as thou hast? Does not that proud rebellious
spirit of thine prove that thy heart is not thoroughly sanctified? Are not those
murmuring words contrary to the holy submissive nature of God's children? Is not
the correction needed? But if thou wilt murmur against the chastening,
take heed, for it will go hard with murmurers. God always chastises His children
twice, if they do not bear the first stroke patiently. But know one thing--"He
doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men." All His corrections
are sent in love, to purify thee, and to draw thee nearer to Himself. Surely it
must help thee to bear the chastening with resignation if thou art able to
recognize thy Father's hand. For "whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and
scourgeth every son whom He receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with
you as with sons." "Murmur not as some of them also murmured and were destroyed
of the destroyer."
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