[blindchristian] Morning and Evening, September 5, 2015

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Morning and Evening
Charles H. Spurgeon
September 5, 2015

Morning Reading

Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar.

-Psalm 120:5

As a Christian you have to live in the midst of an ungodly world, and it is
of little use for you to cry "Woe is me." Jesus did not pray O that you
should be taken out of the world, and what He did not pray for you need not
desire. Better far in the Lord's strength to meet the difficulty, and
glorify Him in it. The enemy is ever on the watch to detect inconsistency in
your conduct; be therefore very holy. Remember that the eyes of all are upon
you, and that more is expected from you than from other men. Strive to give
no occasion for blame. Let your goodness be the only fault they can discover
in you. Like Daniel, compel them to say of you, "We shall not find any
occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the
law of his God." Seek to be useful as well as consistent. Perhaps you think,
"If I were in a more favourable position I might serve the Lord's cause, but
I cannot do any good where I am"; but the worse the people are among whom
you live, the more need have they of your exertions; if they be crooked, the
more necessity that you should set them straight; and if they be perverse,
the more need have you to turn their proud hearts to the truth. Where should
the physician be but where there are many sick? Where is honour to be won by
the soldier but in the hottest fire of the battle? And when weary of the
strife and sin that meets you on every hand, consider that all the saints
have endured the same trial. They were not carried on beds of down to
heaven, and you must not expect to travel more easily than they. They had to
hazard their lives unto the death in the high places of the field, and you
will not be crowned till you also have endured hardness as a good soldier of
Jesus Christ. Therefore, "stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be
strong."

Evening Reading

Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?

-Job 38:16

Some things in nature must remain a mystery to the most intelligent and
enterprising investigators. Human knowledge has bounds beyond which it
cannot pass. Universal knowledge is for God alone. If this be so in the
things which are seen and temporal, I may rest assured that it is even more
so in matters spiritual and eternal. Why, then, have I been torturing my
brain with speculations as to destiny and will, fixed fate, and human
responsibility? These deep and dark truths I am no more able to comprehend
than to find out the depth which coucheth beneath, from which old ocean
draws her watery stores. Why am I so curious to know the reason of my Lord's
providences, the motive of His actions, the design of His visitations? Shall
I ever be able to clasp the sun in my fist, and hold the universe in my
palm? yet these are as a drop of a bucket compared with the Lord my God. Let
me not strive to understand the infinite, but spend my strength in love.
What I cannot gain by intellect I can possess by affection, and let that
suffice me. I cannot penetrate the heart of the sea, but I can enjoy the
healthful breezes which sweep over its bosom, and I can sail over its blue
waves with propitious winds. If I could enter the springs of the sea, the
feat would serve no useful purpose either to myself or to others, it would
not save the sinking bark, or give back the drowned mariner to his weeping
wife and children; neither would my solving deep mysteries avail me a single
whit, for the least love to God, and the simplest act of obedience to Him,
are better than the profoundest knowledge. My Lord, I leave the infinite to
Thee, and pray Thee to put far from me such a love for the tree of knowledge
as might keep me from the tree of life.

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