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Morning and Evening

October 23, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"Will ye also go away?" — John 6:67 · KJV

Many have forsaken Christ and walked no more with Him; but what reason have you to make a change? Has there been any reason for it in the past? Has not Jesus proved Himself all-sufficient? He appeals to you this morning: "Have I been a wilderness unto you?" When your soul has simply trusted Jesus, have you ever been confounded? Have you not, up to now, found your Lord to be a compassionate and generous friend, and has not simple faith in Him given you all the peace your spirit could desire? Can you so much as dream of a better friend than He has been to you? Then do not change the old and tried for the new and false. As for the present, can that compel you to leave Christ? When we are hard beset by this world, or by the sharper trials within the Church, we find it a most blessed thing to pillow our head on the bosom of our Savior. This is our joy today, that we are saved in Him; and if this joy satisfies, why should we think of changing? Who barters gold for dross? We will not forswear the sun till we find a better light, nor leave our Lord until a brighter lover appears; and since this can never be, we will hold Him with an immortal grasp, and bind His name as a seal upon our arm. As for the future, can you suggest anything that could arise to make it necessary to mutiny, or desert the old flag to serve under another captain? We think not. If life be long — He changes not. If we are poor, what better than to have Christ, who can make us rich? When we are sick, what more do we want than Jesus to make our bed in our sickness? And when we die, is it not written that "neither death, nor life, nor things present, nor things to come, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord"? We say with Peter, "Lord, to whom shall we go?"