March 10th Evening

0:00You are listening to Morning and Evening, a daily devotional work by Reverend Charles Spurgeon. This reading is brought to you by the Spurgeon Study Bible, available in the original King James Version, or the Christian Standard Bible, at SpurgeonStudyBible.com. Good evening, today is March the 10th. Man is of few days and full of trouble. Job 14 verse 1. It may be of great service to us before we fall asleep. To remember this mournful fact, for it may lead us to set loose by earthly things. There is nothing very pleasant in the recollection that we are not above the shafts of adversity.

1:04But it may humble us and prevent our boasting, like the psalmist in our morning's portion. My mountains stand as firm, I shall never be moved. It may stares from taking too deep root in the soil, from which we are not so soon to be transplanted into the heavenly garden. Let us recollect the frail tenure upon which we hold our temporal mercies. If we would remember that all the trees of the earth are marked for the woodman's axe, we should not be so ready to build our nests in them. We should love, but we should love with the love which expects death, and which reckons upon separations. Our dear relations are but loaned to us, and they are when we must return them to the lender's hand, maybe even at the door. The like is certainly true of our worldly goods. Do not riches take to themselves wings and fly away. Our health is equally precarious.

2:04Frail flowers of the field, we must not reckon upon blooming forever. There is a time appointed for weakness and sickness, when we shall have to glorify God by suffering and not by earnest activity. There is no single point in which we can hope to escape from the sharp arrows of affliction. Out of our very few days there is not one secure from sorrow. Man's life is a cask full of bitter wine, he who looks for joy in it had better seek for honey in an ocean of brine. We love a reader, set not to affections upon things of earth, but seek those things which are above, for here the must devour us, and the thief break us through, but there all joys are perpetual and eternal. The path of trouble is the way home. Lord, make this thought a pillow for many a weary head.

3:10We love it, rest this night knowing that neither death nor life, nor angels nor demons, nor powers nor things present or things to come shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.