[Faith-talk] Sharing a devotion

[Linda Mentink]

Thanks, Nate. Spurgeon is one of my favorite authors. I proof two 
sermons a week for a friend here who puts them out for others to take 
and read. Such good stuff!

Blessings,

Linda

At 02:04 PM 10/23/2014, you wrote:
>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?"