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Ärende: A Mountain Choir
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Faith's Checkbook  


Charles H. Spurgeon
Jul 6, 2006

 

July 7 
A Mountain Choir 

"Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O
mountains: for the LORD hath comforted His people, and will have mercy upon His
afflicted" (Isaiah 49:13). 

So sweet are the comforts of the LORD, that not only the saints themselves may
sing of them, but even the heavens and the earth may take up the song. It takes
something to make a mountain sing; and yet the prophet summons quite a choir of
them. Lebanon, and Sirion, and the high hills of Bashan and Moab, He would set
them all singing because of Jehovah's grace to His own Zion. May we not also
make mountains of difficulty, and trial, and mystery, and labor become
occasions for praise unto our God? "Break forth into singing, O mountains!" 

This word of promise, that our God will have mercy upon His afflicted, has a
whole peal of bells connected with it. Hear their music -- "Sing!" "Be joyful!"
"Break forth into singing." The LORD would have His people happy because of His
unfailing love. He would not have us sad and doubtful; He claims from us the
worship of believing hearts. He cannot fail us: why should we sigh or sulk as
if He would do so? Oh, for a well tuned harp! Oh, for voices like those of the
cherubim before the throne! 
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807 8.8.8. J. HART 
“Love not the world.ö 1 John. 2. 15-17; Matt. 6. 24 




1 My brethren, why these anxious fears,  These warm pursuits and eager cares 
For earth and all its gilded toys?  If the whole world you could possess,  It
might enchant; it could not bless;  False hopes, vain pleasures, and light
joys. 

2 [Remember, brethren, whose you are;  Whose cause you own, whose name you
bear;  Is it not his who could not call 
His own (though he had all things made)  A place whereon to lay his head – 
A servant, though the Lord of all? 

3 If wealth or honour, power or fame,  Can bring you nearer to the Lamb, 
Then follow these with all your might;  But if they only make you stray, 
And draw your hearts from him away,  Reflect in what you thus delight.] 

4 Jesus has said (who surely knew 
Much better what we ought to do 
Than we can e’er pretend to see), 
“No thought e’en for the morrow take;ö  And “He that will not for my sake 
Relinquish all, ‘s unworthy me.ö 

5 [Let no vain words your souls deceive,  Nor Satan tempt you to believe 
The world and God can hold their parts;  True Christians long for Christ alone.
 The sacrifices God will own, 
Are broken, not divided, hearts. 

6 Great things we are not here to crave;  But if we food and raiment have, 
Should learn to be therewith content.  Into the world we nothing brought,  Nor
can we from it carry aught; 
Then walk the way your Master went. 



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