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Ärende: Deliverance from Dust and Chaff
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Faith's Checkbook  

Charles H. Spurgeon
Sep 22, 2006

 

September 23 




Deliverance from Dust and Chaff 

"For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all
sections, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall
upon the earth" (Amos 9:9). 

The sifting process is going on still. Wherever we go, we are still being
winnowed and sifted. In all countries God's people are being tried "like as
corn is sifted in a sieve." Sometimes the devil holds the sieve and tosses us
up and down at a great rate, with the earnest desire to get rid of us forever.
Unbelief is not slow to agitate our heart and mind with its restless fears. The
world lends a willing hand at the same process and shakes us to the right and
to the left with great vigor. Worst of all, the church, so largely apostate as
it is, comes in to give a more furious force to the sifting process. 

Well, well! Let it go on. Thus is the chaff severed from the wheat. Thus is the
wheat delivered from dust and chaff. And how great is the mercy which comes to
us in the text, "Yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth"! All shall
be preserved that is good, true, gracious. Not one of the least of believers
lose anything worth calling a loss. We shall be so kept in the sifting that it
shall be a real gain to us through Christ Jesus. 

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O JESUS, Friend unfailing 

by Samuel C. G. Kaester, (1762-1838)  tr. by Miss H. K. Burlingham. 
sung to Day of Rest 
by J. W. Elliott (1833-1915) 

1 O JESUS, Friend unfailing, 
How dear art Thou to me! 
Are cares or fears assailing? 
I find my strength in Thee! 
Why should my feet grow weary 
Of this my pilgrim way? 
Rough though the path and dreary, 
It ends in perfect day! 

2 Nought, nought I count as pleasure,  Compared, O Christ, with Thee! 
Thy sorrow, without measure, 
Earned peace and joy for me. 
I love to own, Lord Jesus, 
Thy claims o'er me divine, 
Bought with Thy blood most precious,  Whose can I be but Thine! 

3 What fills my heart with gladness? 
'Tis Thine abounding grace! 
Where can I look in sadness, 
But, Jesus, on Thy face? 
My all is Thy providing --- 
Thy love can ne'er grow cold; 
In Thee, my Refuge, hiding --- 
No good wilt Thou withhold. 

4 Why should I droop in sorrow? 
Thou'rt ever by my side! 
Why, trembling, dread the morrow? 
What ill can e'er betide? 
If I my cross have taken, 
'Tis but to follow Thee; 
If scorned, despised, forsaken, 
Nought severs Thee from me. 

5 O worldly pomp and glory, 
Your charms are spread in vain! 
I've heard a sweeter story! 
I've found a truer gain! 
Where Christ a place prepareth, 
There is my loved abode; 
There shall I gaze on Jesus: 
There shall I dwell with God. 

6 For every tribulation, 
For every sore distress, 
In Christ I've full salvation, 
Sure help and quiet rest. 
No fear of foes prevailing, 
I triumph, Lord, in Thee! 
O Jesus, Friend unfailing, 
How dear art Thou to me! 




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