Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Tuesday March 8, 2022 |
Morning Time: 2:47 AM PST
"We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." --Acts
14:22
God's people have their trials. It was never designed by God, when He chose
His people, that they should be an untried people. They were chosen in the
furnace of affliction; they were never chosen to worldly peace and earthly joy.
Freedom from sickness and the pains of mortality was never promised them; but
when their Lord drew up the charter of privileges, He included chastisements
amongst the things to which they should inevitably be heirs. Trials are a part
of our lot; they were predestinated for us in Christ's last legacy. So surely as
the stars are fashioned by his hands, and their orbits fixed by Him, so surely
are our trials allotted to us: He has ordained their season and their place,
their intensity and the effect they shall have upon us. Good men must never
expect to escape troubles; if they do, they will be disappointed, for none of
their predecessors have been without them. Mark the patience of Job; remember
Abraham, for he had his trials, and by his faith under them, he became the
"Father of the faithful." Note well the biographies of all the patriarchs,
prophets, apostles, and martyrs, and you shall discover none of those whom God
made vessels of mercy, who were not made to pass through the fire of affliction.
It is ordained of old that the cross of trouble should be engraved on every
vessel of mercy, as the royal mark whereby the King's vessels of honour are
distinguished. But although tribulation is thus the path of God's children, they
have the comfort of knowing that their Master has traversed it before them; they
have His presence and sympathy to cheer them, His grace to support them, and His
example to teach them how to endure; and when they reach "the kingdom," it will
more than make amends for the "much tribulation" through which they passed to
enter it.
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