OCTOBER 3

OUR PERSONAL PROMISES

Job 19:26-27

“Even after my skin is destroyed,  yet from my flesh I will see God,

Whom I, on my part, shall behold for myself, and whom my eyes will see, and not another.

My heart faints within me!”

Psalm 49:5

“Why should I fear in days of adversity,

When the injustice of those who betray me surrounds me,”

Lamentations 3:38

“Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That both adversity and good proceed?”

John 16:33

“These things I have spoken to you so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”

Acts 14:22

“strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying, “It is through many tribulations that we must enter the kingdom of God.”

Romans 5:3-5

“And not only this, but we also celebrate in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance;  and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;  and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”

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This month we will read choices from Charles Spurgeon’s (known affectionately as the “prince of preachers”)  devotional, “Beside Still Waters.”   It’s no secret that this world system is getting more evil by the day.  We have to stand strong in the Lord and look to Him more than ever to get through, and to be guided through, what is in the future……..known and allowed  by Him alone…..as well as whatever personal things we are experiencing in our lives.

PASTOR SPURGEON:

Happy are the prosperous who can hear God’s voice in the tinkling of the sheep bells from an abundant flock, who can hear Him in the lowing of cattle that cover their fields and in the loving voices of their precious children.

A word of caution!  Prosperity is a painted window that shuts out much of God’s clear light!  Only when the blue, crimson, and gold tinge is removed will the glass be restored to transparency.

Adversity takes away the tinge, the color, and the dimness, and then we see our God.  In the absence of other goods, the good God is better seen.

In prosperity, God is heard, and that is a blessing.  In adversity, God is seen, and that is a much greater blessing. 

Sanctified adversity quickens spiritual sensitivity.  Sorrow after sorrow will wake the spirit and infuse a delicacy of perception that perhaps will not come in any other way.  I purposely said perhaps, for I believe that some choice saints are favored to reach God by smoother ways.  But I think they are few.  Most of us are so coarse that we need melting to attain that sacred softness by which the Lord God is joyfully perceived.

Child of God, if you are suffering as much as Job, and if your suffering permits you to see the Lord with a spiritually enlightened eye, be thankful for the sorrowful process.  Who would not go to the loneliness  and sufferings of Patmos if one might see John’s visions in Revelation chapter 21?  Who would not sit with Job in the ashes and cry,  “In my flesh I shall see God…”

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