April 29 Morning Devotional | Explanation of Trials | Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Morning, April 29 | “You are my refuge in the day of disaster.” —Jeremiah 17:17 (NASB)

This Morning's Scripture Reading: Jeremiah 17:14-18 (NASB)

“Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed;
Save me and I will be saved,
For You are my praise.
Look, they keep saying to me,
“Where is the word of the Lord?
Let it come now!”
But as for me, I have not hurried away from being a shepherd after You,
Nor have I longed for the woeful day;
You Yourself know that the utterance of my lips
Was in Your presence.
Do not be a terror to me;
You are my refuge in the day of disaster.
Let those who persecute me be put to shame, but as for me, let me not be put to shame;
Let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed.
Bring on them a day of disaster,
And crush them with twofold destruction!”

Devotional Video Transcript:

The path of the Christian is not always bright with sunshine; he has his seasons of darkness and of storm. True, it is written in God’s Word, “Her ways are pleasant ways And all her paths are peace;” (Proverbs 3:17) And it is a great truth, that faith is calculated to give a man happiness below as well as bliss above. But experience tells us that if the course of the righteous is “like the light of dawn, that shines brighter and brighter until the full day,” (Proverbs 4:18) sometimes that light is eclipsed. yet sometimes that light is eclipsed. At certain periods clouds cover the believer’s sun, and he walks in darkness and sees no light.

There are many who have rejoiced in the presence of God for a season; they have basked in the sunshine in the earlier stages of their Christian life. They have walked along the “green pastures” by the side of the “still waters,” but suddenly they find the glorious sky is clouded. Instead of the Land of Goshen they have to tread the sandy desert; in the place of sweet waters, they find troubled streams, bitter to their taste, and they say, “Surely, if I were a child of God, this would not happen.” Oh, say not so, you who are walking in darkness. The best of God’s saints must drink the wormwood; the dearest of his children must bear the cross. No Christian has enjoyed perpetual prosperity; no believer can always keep his harp from the willows.

Perhaps the Lord allotted you at first a smooth and unclouded path, because you were weak and timid. He tempered the wind to the shorn lamb, but now that you are stronger in the spiritual life, you must enter upon the riper and rougher experience of God’s full-grown children. We need winds and tempests to exercise our faith, to tear off the rotten bough of self-dependence, and to root us more firmly in Christ. The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.

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