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       Faith's Checkbook

      Charles H. Spurgeon
      Oct 18, 2006



October 18
Tears, Then Joyful Harvest

"They that sow in tears shall reap in joy" (Psalm 126:5).

Weeping times are suitable for sowing: we do not want the ground to be too dry.
Seed steeped in the tears of earnest anxiety will come up all the sooner. The
salt of prayerful tears will give the good seed a flavor which will preserve it
from the worm: truth spoken in awful earnestness has a double life about it.
Instead of stopping our sowing because of our weeping, let us redouble our
efforts because the season is so propitious.

Our heavenly seed could not fitly be sown laughing. Deep sorrow and concern for
the souls of others are a far more fit accompaniment of godly teaching than
anything like levity. We have heard of men who went to war with a light heart,
but they were beaten; and it is mostly so with those who sow in the same style.

Come, then, my heart, sow on in thy weeping, for thou has the promise of a
joyful harvest. Thou shalt reap. Thou, thyself, shalt see some results of thy
labor. This shall come to thee in so large a measure as to give thee joy, which
a poor, withered, and scanty harvest would not do. When thine eyes are dim with
silver tears, think of the golden corn. Bear cheerfully the present toil and
disappointment; for the harvest day will fully recompense thee.



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Quotes on Revival - Hudson Taylor


"I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my
gracious and merciful God and Father inclined Himself to me, and when I was
weak in faith He strengthened me while I was still young. He taught me in my
helplessness to rest on Him, and to pray even about little things in which
another might have felt able to help himself." "Do we give sufficient attention
to the theme of gaining Christ? It is our joy and privilege to know Him as
God's unspeakable gift, but none knew this more fully than the apostle Paul.
But was he satisfied with this knowledge? Or was Paul's soul-consuming desire,
at all possible cost, to gain Christ; and thus to know Him, and the power of
His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings? Oh that Christ may be
so known by us as a 'living, bright reality' that our one desire-our one
absorbing heart-passion may be that we personally gain Christ-that we
personally know Him as the apostle longed to do." "I have seen many men work
without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have
never seen a man pray without working." "Perhaps if there were more of that
intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see
the results we desire. Sometimes it may be that while we are complaining of the
hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our
own hearts and our feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of eternal things
may be the true cause of our want of success."
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