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Ärende: The King's Highway
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From: "Bob Hoffman" <bhoffman@fmlynet.org>


       Faith's Checkbook

      The King's Highway
      Charles H. Spurgeon
      Mar 31, 2006



April 1




The King's Highway

"The wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein" (Isaiah 35:8).

The way of holiness is so straight and plain that the simplest minds cannot go
astray if they constantly follow it. The worldly wise have many twists and
turns, and yet they make terrible blunders and generally miss their end.
Worldly policy is a poor, shortsighted thing, and when men choose it as their
road, it leads them over dark mountains. Gracious minds know no better than to
do as the LORD bids them; but this keeps them in the King's highway and under
royal protection.

Let the reader never for a moment attempt to help himself out of a difficulty
by a falsehood or by a questionable act; but let him keep in the middle of the
high road of truth and integrity, and he will be following the best possible
course. In our lives we must never practice circular sailing nor dream of
shuffling. Be just and fear not. Follow Jesus and heed no evil consequences. If
the worst of ills could be avoided by wrongdoing, we should, in the very
attempt, have fallen into an evil worse than any other ill could be. God's way
must be the very best way. Follow it though men think you a fool, and you will
be truly wise.

LORD, lead Thy servants in a plain path because of their enemies.

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Altogether lovely!

("Solitude Sweetened" by James Meikle, 1730-1799)

"Yes, He is altogether lovely! This is my Beloved, and this is my Friend!"
(Song of Solomon 5:16)

Why does the world reject the Savior of the world? Why do they abhor Him who is
altogether lovely, and hate Him who is the best Friend of mankind?

O men of the world! what good can you desire which is not in Christ? The
excellencies of earth are but His footstool; the excellencies of heaven are but
His throne! How excellent, then, must He himself be!

His treasures are infinite—and open for you!

In Jesus are . . .
riches—if you are poor;
honor—if you are despised;
friendship—if you are forsaken;
help—if you are injured;
mercy—if you are miserable;
joy—if you are disconsolate;
protection—if you are in danger;
deliverance—if you are a captive;
life—if you are mortal;
and all things—if you have nothing at all.

Time and eternity are His! He can give you all the glorious things of eternity!

Moreover, He can deliver you . . .
from all your fears;
from sin—the worst of all evils;
from self—the most hurtful of all companions; from death—the most dreadful of
all changes; from Satan—the most subtle of all enemies; from hell—the most
horrible of all prisons; and from wrath—the most horrifying doom of all
sinners!

Now, where will you find such a one as Jesus?

Why, then, refuse life, and seek after death?

All heaven is enamored with His beauty!

The longer we look on 'created gaieties', the leaner and less lovely they grow;
so that, by the time we have viewed them forty, fifty, or sixty years—we see
nothing but vanity in the creature! But when ten thousand ages are employed in
beholding the perfection and beauty of Jesus—He still appears more and more
lovely—even altogether lovely!

Alas! I can say nothing of His true excellencies! They overwhelm my laboring
thought, and are too vast for my feeble conception to bring forth!



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