Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Thursday July 11, 2024 |
Morning Time: 11:44 AM PST
"After that ye have suffered awhile, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen,
settle you." --1 Peter 5:10
You have seen the arch of heaven as it spans the plain: glorious are its
colours, and rare its hues. It is beautiful, but, alas, it passes away, and lo,
it is not. The fair colours give way to the fleecy clouds, and the sky is no
longer brilliant with the tints of heaven. It is not established. How can
it be? A glorious show made up of transitory sun-beams and passing rain-drops,
how can it abide? The graces of the Christian character must not resemble the
rainbow in its transitory beauty, but, on the contrary, must be stablished,
settled, abiding. Seek, O believer, that every good thing you have may be an
abiding thing. May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an
inscription upon the rock! May your faith be no "baseless fabric of a vision,"
but may it be builded of material able to endure that awful fire which shall
consume the wood, hay, and stubble of the hypocrite. May you be rooted and
grounded in love. May your convictions be deep, your love real, your desires
earnest. May your whole life be so settled and established, that all the blasts
of hell, and all the storms of earth shall never be able to remove you. But
notice how this blessing of being "stablished in the faith" is gained. The
apostle's words point us to suffering as the means employed--"After
that ye have suffered awhile." It is of no use to hope that we shall be well
rooted if no rough winds pass over us. Those old gnarlings on the root of the
oak tree, and those strange twistings of the branches, all tell of the many
storms that have swept over it, and they are also indicators of the depth into
which the roots have forced their way. So the Christian is made strong, and
firmly rooted by all the trials and storms of life. Shrink not then from the
tempestuous winds of trial, but take comfort, believing that by their rough
discipline God is fulfilling this benediction to you.
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