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Faith's Checkbook  

Losses Overcome
Charles H. Spurgeon
May 17, 2006

 

May 18 




Losses Overcome 

"And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten" (Joel 2:25). 

Yes, those wasted years over which we sigh shall be restored to us. God can
give us such plentiful grace that we shall crowd into the remainder of our days
as much of service as will be some recompense for those years of unregeneracy
over which we mourn in humble penitence. The locusts of backsliding,
worldliness, lukewarmness, are now viewed by us as a terrible plague. Oh, that
they had never come near us! The LORD in mercy has now taken them away, and we
are full of zeal to serve Him. Blessed be His name, we can raise such harvests
of spiritual graces as shall make our former barrenness to disappear. Through
rich grace we can turn to account our bitter experience and use it to warn
others. We can become the more rooted in humility, child-like dependence, and
penitent spirituality by reason of our former shortcomings. If we are the more
watchful, zealous, and tender, we shall gain by our lamentable losses. The
wasted years, by a miracle of love, can be restored. Does it seem too great a
boon? Let us believe for it and live for it, and we may yet realize it, even as
Peter became all the more useful a man after his presumption was cured by his
discovered weakness. LORD, aid us by Thy grace. 

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Have you ever been caught in this snare? 

("The Marvelous Riches of Savoring Christ,  The letters of Ruth Bryan" May 8,
1852) 

"Give us today our daily bread." Matthew 6:11 

Whatever your heavenly Father calls you to, He will  support you under. But He
will not give the manna  for tomorrow, or strengthen you for the next trial, 
while you have it only in anticipation. "As your days,  so shall your strength
be." And herein I read my own  foolishness; often wearing out present strength
with  fears and forebodings of future trials; thus far  disregarding present
mercies, and rebelling against  the Lord's will, because unlawfully
anticipating it. 

Being naturally of an anxious mind, I must say that  thus foolish and ignorant
have I often been, and  surprised when brought to discover how much I was 
dragging into the present hour, what did not belong  to it. Have you ever been
caught in this snare? 

"So don't worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will  bring its own worries. Each
day has enough trouble  of its own." Matthew 6:34 




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