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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
MORNING:
"Will ye also go away?"
-- John 6:67
Many have forsaken Christ, and have 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 till now found your Lord to be a compassionate and generous friend
to you, 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 change not the old and tried for new and
false. As for the present, can that compel you to leave Christ? When we
are hard beset with this world, or with the severer trials within the
Church, we find it a most blessed thing to pillow our head upon the
bosom of our Saviour. This is the joy we have to-day that we are saved
in him; and if this joy be satisfying, wherefore 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 shall
appear; and, since this can never be, we will hold him with a grasp
immortal, and bind his name as a seal upon our arm. As for the future,
can you suggest anything which can arise that shall render it necessary
for you 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? 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?"
EVENING:
"Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation."
-- Luke 22:46
When is the Christian most liable to sleep? Is it not when his temporal
circumstances are prosperous? Have you not found it so? When you had
daily troubles to take to the throne of grace, were you not more
wakeful than you are now? Easy roads make sleepy travellers. Another
dangerous time is when all goes pleasantly in spiritual matters.
Christian went not to sleep when lions were in the way, or when he was
wading through the river, or when fighting with Apollyon, but when he
had climbed half way up the Hill Difficulty, and came to a delightful
arbour, he sat down, and forthwith fell asleep, to his great sorrow and
loss. The enchanted ground is a place of balmy breezes, laden with
fragrant odours and soft influences, all tending to lull pilgrims to
sleep. Remember Bunyan's description: "Then they came to an arbour,
warm, and promising much refreshing to the weary pilgrims; for it was
finely wrought above head, beautified with greens, and furnished with
benches and settles. It had also in it a soft couch, where the weary
might lean." "The arbour was called the Slothful's Friend, and was made
on purpose to allure, if it might be, some of the pilgrims to take up
their rest there when weary." Depend upon it, it is in easy places that
men shut their eyes and wander into the dreamy land of forgetfulness.
Old Erskine wisely remarked, "I like a roaring devil better than a
sleeping devil." There is no temptation half so dangerous as not being
tempted. The distressed soul does not sleep; it is after we enter into
peaceful confidence and full assurance that we are in danger of
slumbering. The disciples fell asleep after they had seen Jesus
transfigured on the mountain top. Take heed, joyous Christian, good
frames are near neighbours to temptations: be as happy as you will,
only be watchful.
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