Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Sunday January 22, 2023 |
Evening Time: 5:47 PM PST
"Doth Job fear God for nought?" --Job 1:9
This was the wicked question of Satan concerning that upright man of old, but
there are many in the present day concerning whom it might be asked with
justice, for they love God after a fashion because He prospers them; but if
things went ill with them, they would give up all their boasted faith in God. If
they can clearly see that since the time of their supposed conversion the world
has gone prosperously with them, then they will love God in their poor carnal
way; but if they endure adversity, they rebel against the Lord. Their love is
the love of the table, not of the host; a love to the cupboard, not to the
master of the house. As for the true Christian, he expects to have his reward in
the next life, and to endure hardness in this. The promise of the old covenant
is adversity. Remember Christ's words--"Every branch in Me that beareth not
fruit"-- What? "He purgeth it, that it may bring forth fruit." If you
bring forth fruit, you will have to endure affliction. "Alas!" you say, "that is
a terrible prospect." But this affliction works out such precious results, that
the Christian who is the subject of it must learn to rejoice in tribulations,
because as his tribulations abound, so his consolations abound by Christ Jesus.
Rest assured, if you are a child of God, you will be no stranger to the rod.
Sooner or later every bar of gold must pass through the fire. Fear not, but
rather rejoice that such fruitful times are in store for you, for in them you
will be weaned from earth and made meet for heaven; you will be delivered from
clinging to the present, and made to long for those eternal things which are so
soon to be revealed to you. When you feel that as regards the present you do
serve God for nought, you will then rejoice in the infinite reward of the
future.
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