This Morning's Meditation

[r77r7r]

This Really helped me this morning! Actually, it helped me twice. Last nite I opened the M&E app on my tablet hoping for something calming b4 sleeping. Happened to be up past midnite, so it was this Morning's reading. Not realizing that when I got up, I went to search for it to read it again, lol.

It was all there just waiting for me Funny how that stuff happens....

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

This Morning's Meditation
C. H. Spurgeon



"He shall not be afraid of evil tidings."—Psalm 112:7.

HRISTIAN, you ought not to dread the arrival of evil tidings; because if you are distressed by them, what do you more than other men? Other men have not your God to fly to; they have never proved His faithfulness as you have done, and it is no wonder if they are bowed down with alarm and cowed with fear: but you profess to be of another spirit; you have been begotten again unto a lively hope, and your heart lives in heaven and not on earthly things; now, if you are seen to be distracted as other men, what is the value of that grace which you profess to have received? Where is the dignity of that new nature which you claim to possess?

Again, if you should be filled with alarm, as others are, you would, doubtless, be led into the sins so common to others under trying circumstances. The ungodly, when they are overtaken by evil tidings, rebel against God; they murmur, and think that God deals hardly with them. Will you fall into that same sin? Will you provoke the Lord as they do?

Moreover, unconverted men often run to wrong means in order to escape from difficulties, and you will be sure to do the same if your mind yields to the present pressure. Trust in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him. Your wisest course is to do as Moses did at the Red Sea, "Stand still and see the salvation of God." For if you give way to fear when you hear of evil tidings, you will be unable to meet the trouble with that calm composure which nerves for duty, and sustains under adversity. How can you glorify God if you play the coward? Saints have often sung God's high praises in the fires, but will your doubting and desponding, as if you had none to help you, magnify the Most High? Then take courage, and relying in sure confidence upon the faithfulness of your covenant God, "let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."

 

[mightymen]

Very nice post - thanks - Spurgeon surely walked the walk.



Yes I have experience this first hand in 2003 major calamity fell upon me and my son who was 8 at the time. Seriously we were all alone and I had no idea what to do when I said God if you are really God then I turn all of this fear and worry over to you knowing you will provide a way. yes I stood on this "Stand still and see the salvation of God." and one after one things started to come together and we were able to make it through, I still felt pain and wasn't myself but we made it through the impossible. God open doors that should never have been open for us. My faith was strong back then and now it's even stronger hopefully it reflects in my posts. There is no other God but the True and awesome Creator of everything who is love.

I will praise and sing songs to the Lord God. Not only when it's light out also in the darkness for not only does He shine a light on the path He also built the path I walk on. I'll repeat what Spurgeon said "let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." and "Stand still and see the salvation of God."

 

[Saintscruiser]

777, I too needed that. Perfectly timed! There are no coincidences. As the counselor at my church used to say, "It's a God thing!" Bless His Holy Name.

Great post!