[Faith-talk] Sharing a devotion

[Poppa Bear]

Here is a daily devotion that I wanted to share in hopes that it may be an
encouragement to some fellow pilgrims, from Morning by Morning, Charles H
Spurgeon, 10/23/AM

"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 Savior. 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?"