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VERSE OF THE DAY (COMMENTARY BY SPURGEON)

“One who is righteous has many adversities, but the LORD rescues him from them all.” (Psalm 34:19)

Scripture does not flatter us like the story books with the idea that goodness will secure us from trouble; on the contrary, we are again and again warned to expect tribulation while we are in this body. Our afflictions come from all points of the compass, and are as many and as tormenting as the mosquitoes of the tropics. It is the earthly portion of the elect to find thorns and briers growing in their pathway, yes, to lie down among them, finding their rest broken and disturbed by sorrow.

But, blessed but, how it takes the sting out of the previous sentence! “But the LORD rescues him from them all.” Through troops of ills, the Lord shall lead his redeemed scatheless and triumphant. There is an end to the believer’s affliction, and a joyful end too. None of his trials can hurt so much as a hair of his head, nor can the furnace hold him for a moment after the Lord bids him come forth of it. The same Lord who sends the afflictions will also recall them when his design is accomplished, but he will never allow the fiercest of them to rend and devour his beloved.

PRAY FOR THE NATIONS

This week, we’re praying for the Kibet of Chad.

This is an ethnic group of about 96,000 people with, as far as we know, no access to the gospel. There are no Christians among them, no churches in their area, and no Bibles in their language. They will never hear the gospel unless someone brings it to them from the outside.

Pray that God would send missionaries to the Kibet.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCE

Why a lot of Christian books don’t help suffering people*

There are a lot of Christian books about suffering that focus on…

• understanding what God is doing in your suffering

• how to escape suffering

• why suffering exists.

While those things are worth talking about and thinking about sometimes, they aren’t usually comforting to suffering people. When we go through a trial, we are faced with a lot of needs, what we need more than anything is to know the unchanging care of Jesus.

My friends at New Growth Press have just put out a new devotional by Spurgeon on the topic of suffering, Your Only Comfort: Devotions for Hope in Suffering, and I love the way this book starts, with Spurgeon’s reflection on Hebrews 13:8, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” In suffering, when everything feels flipped upside-down and falling apart, THIS is what we need. We need to know Jesus is the same. His power is the same. His care is the same. And it always will be.

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