[blindchristian] Blue Letter Bible Morning and Evening

From: "Victoria E Gilkerson" <vegilkerson@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <blindchristian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Jean Blades" <jeanmblades@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 02:48:05 -0600
 

Morning and Evening
Charles H. Spurgeon
February 9, 2015 

Morning Reading

And David enquired of the Lord.

-2 Samuel 5:23

When David made this enquiry he had just fought the Philistines, and gained
a signal victory. The Philistines came up in great hosts, but, by the help
of God, David had easily put them to flight. Note, however, that when they
came a second time, David did not go up to fight them without enquiring of
the Lord. Once he had been victorious, and he might have said, as many have
in other cases, "I shall be victorious again; I may rest quite sure that if
I have conquered once I shall triumph yet again. Wherefore should I tarry to
seek at the Lord's hands?" Not so, David. He had gained one battle by the
strength of the Lord; he would not venture upon another until he had ensured
the same. He enquired, "Shall I go up against them?" He waited until God's
sign was given. Learn from David to take no step without God. Christian, if
thou wouldst know the path of duty, take God for thy compass; if thou
wouldst steer thy ship through the dark billows, put the tiller into the
hand of the Almighty. Many a rock might be escaped, if we would let our
Father take the helm; many a shoal or quicksand we might well avoid, if we
would leave to His sovereign will to choose and to command. The Puritan
said, "As sure as ever a Christian carves for himself, he'll cut his own
fingers;" this is a great truth. Said another old divine, "He that goes
before the cloud of God's providence goes on a fool's errand;" and so he
does. We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries,
tarry till providence comes. He who goes before providence, will be very
glad to run back again. "I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way
which thou shalt go," is God's promise to His people. Let us, then, take all
our perplexities to Him, and say, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?"
Leave not thy chamber this morning without enquiring of the Lord. 

Evening Reading

Lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil [or, the evil one].

-Luke 11:4

What we are taught to seek or shun in prayer, we should equally pursue or
avoid in action. Very earnestly, therefore, should we avoid temptation,
seeking to walk so guardedly in the path of obedience, that we may never
tempt the devil to tempt us. We are not to enter the thicket in search of
the lion. Dearly might we pay for such presumption. This lion may cross our
path or leap upon us from the thicket, but we have nothing to do with
hunting him. He that meeteth with him, even though he winneth the day, will
find it a stern struggle. Let the Christian pray that he may be spared the
encounter. Our Saviour, who had experience of what temptation meant, thus
earnestly admonished His disciples-"Pray that ye enter not into temptation."


But let us do as we will, we shall be tempted; hence the prayer "deliver us
from evil." God had one Son without sin; but He has no son without
temptation. The natural man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upwards,
and the Christian man is born to temptation just as certainly. We must be
always on our watch against Satan, because, like a thief, he gives no
intimation of his approach. Believers who have had experience of the ways of
Satan, know that there are certain seasons when he will most probably make
an attack, just as at certain seasons bleak winds may be expected; thus the
Christian is put on a double guard by fear of danger, and the danger is
averted by preparing to meet it. Prevention is better than cure: it is
better to be so well armed that the devil will not attack you, than to
endure the perils of the fight, even though you come off a conqueror. Pray
this evening first that you may not be tempted, and next that if temptation
be permitted, you may be delivered from the evil one. 

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