So often in our culture today we hear buzz words like "hope" and "promised." Yet, being an avid reader of the news, I constantly am discouraged by what is plaguing our world today and the lack of good news. Jeremiah 17:7 reads, "Thou art my hope in the day of evil." If you truly seek hope and want good news, I find it comforting to know I can rest in Christ Jesus as my Savior as my true hope. Here lies the Good News!
For this first "Salvation Sunday," I would like to share this daily devotional written by Charles Spurgeon from his book titled, "Morning and Evening."
"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 ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace;" and it is a great truth, that religion is calculated to give a man happiness below as well as bliss above; but experience tells us that if the course of the just be "As the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day," 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 career; 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, thou who art 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."
For more daily readings written by Charles Spurgeon, you may access the Daily Bible Study. To access an online Bible, please use the Online Parallel Bible.
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