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Faith's Checkbook  

Charles H. Spurgeon
Aug 9, 2006

 

August 10 




He Lowers to Raise 

"Thy LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: He bringeth low, and lifteth up" (1
Samuel 2:7). 

All my changes come from Him who never changes. If I had grown rich, I should
have seen His hand in it, and I should have praised Him; let me equally see His
hand if I am made poor, and let me as heartily praise Him. When we go down in
the world, it is of the LORD, and so we may take it patiently: when we rise in
the world, it is of the LORD, and we may accept it thankfully. In any case, the
LORD hath done it, and it is well. 

It seems that Jehovah's way is to lower those whom He means to raise and to
strip those whom He intends to clothe. If it is His way, it is the wisest and
best way. If I am now enduring the bringing low, I may well rejoice, because I
see in it the preface to the lifting up. The more we are humbled by grace, the
more we shall be exalted in glory. That impoverishment which will be overruled
for our enrichment is to be welcomed. 

O LORD, Thou has taken me down of late and made me feel my insignificance and
sin. It is not a pleasant experience, but I pray Thee make it a profitable one
to me. Oh, that Thou wouldst thus fit me to bear a greater weight of delight
and of usefulness; and when I am ready for it, then grant it to me, for
Christ's sake! Amen. 

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The Egyptian dog! 




The following is from Spurgeon’s sermon,  “A REFRESHING CANTICLEö 

The old Puritan pastors frequently compared their hearers to the  Egyptian dog
that ran to the Nile, and drank, and then ran away.  Their hearers came up to
the meeting-house, and heard the minister, took a little sip of the gospel,
which sufficed them, and then they were off. 

One preacher said that he wished they were like the fishes-  not come and lap
at the stream, as the dog did, but swim in it,  and live in it. 

There are too many, in this age, who are content with hearing  a little of
Christ’s love; a sip by the way is all that they  seem to need. 

But it would be far better if you could come up to Rutherford’s ideal- öI would
have my soul sunk over its masthead in a sea of love to Christ. I would be
sunken fifty fathoms deep in the mighty shoreless ocean of his love, so that
there might be nothing left of me, and that I might be swallowed up in love to
Christ, and in Christ’s love to me.ö 



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