“I will fear no evil: for thou art with me.”
~Psalm 23:4~
Behold, how independent of outward circumstances the Holy
Ghost can make the Christian! What a bright light may shine within us when it
is all dark without! How firm, how happy, how calm, how peaceful we may be,
when the world shakes to and fro, and the pillars of the earth are removed!
Even death itself, with all its terrible influences, has no power to suspend
the music of a Christian’s heart, but rather makes that music become more
sweet, more clear, more heavenly, till the last kind act which death can do is
to let the earthly strain melt into the heavenly chorus, the temporal joy into
the eternal bliss! Let us have confidence, then, in the blessed Spirit’s power
to comfort us. Dear reader, are you looking forward to poverty? Fear not; the
divine Spirit can give you, in your want, a greater plenty than the rich have
in their abundance. You know not what joys may be stored up for you in the
cottage around which grace will plant the roses of content. Are you conscious
of a growing failure of your bodily powers? Do you expect to suffer long nights
of languishing and days of pain? O be not sad! That bed may become a throne to
you. You little know how every pang that shoots through your body may be a
refining fire to consume your dross-a beam of glory to light up the secret
parts of your soul. Are the eyes growing dim? Jesus will be your light. Do the
ears fail you? Jesus’ name will be your soul’s best music, and his person your
dear delight. Socrates used to say, “Philosophers can be happy without music;”
and Christians can be happier than philosophers when all outward causes of
rejoicing are withdrawn. In thee, my God, my heart shall triumph, come what may
of ills without! By thy power, O blessed Spirit, my heart shall be exceeding
glad, though all things should fail me here below.
-Charles Spurgeon's Evening Meditation, April 8th
~Brittany
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