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Morning and Evening

May 22, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"He led them forth by the right way." — Psalm 107:7 · KJV

Changing experience often leads the anxious believer to ask, "Why is it like this with me?" I looked for light, and darkness came; I looked for peace, and trouble came. I said in my heart that my mountain stood firm and I would never be moved. Lord, You hide Your face, and I am troubled. Only yesterday I could read my title to heaven clearly; today my evidences are dimmed and my hopes are clouded. Yesterday I could climb to the summit of Pisgah, survey the whole landscape, and rejoice with confidence in my future inheritance; today my spirit has no hopes but many fears, no joys but much distress. Is this part of God's plan for me? Can this really be the way God brings me to heaven? Yes, it truly is. The eclipse of your faith, the darkness of your mind, the fainting of your hope, all of these are simply parts of God's method for ripening you for the great inheritance you will soon enter. These trials are meant to test and strengthen your faith; they are waves that wash you further up onto the rock; they are winds that carry your ship more swiftly toward the harbor you long for. What David said may be said of you: "so He bringeth them to their desired haven." By honor and dishonor, by bad reputation and good, by plenty and by poverty, by joy and by distress, by persecution and by peace, the life of your soul is sustained, and by every one of these you are helped along your way. Do not imagine, believer, that your sorrows fall outside God's plan; they are necessary parts of it. "We must, through much tribulation, enter the kingdom." Learn, then, even to "count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations." Let your trembling soul be still and wait for His wise and holy will; you cannot see His purpose, yet all is well since He governs it.