March 10th Morning

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 morning, today is March the 10th. In my prosperity, I said I shall never be moved, Psalm 30 verse 6. Moab settled on his leaves. He hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel. Give a man wealth, let his ships bring home continually rich freight, let the winds and waves appear to be his servants to bear his vessels across the bosom of the mighty

1:03deep, let his hands yield abundantly, let the weather be propitious to his crops, let uninterrupted success attend him, let him stand among men as a successful merchant, let him enjoy continued health, allow him with braced nerve and brilliant eye to march through the world and live happily, give him the boy and spirit, let him have the song perpetually on his lips, let his eye be ever sparkling with joy, and the natural consequence of such an easy state to any man, let him be the best Christian who ever breathed, will be presumption. One David said, I shall never be moved, and we are not better than David, nor half so good. Brother, beware of the smooth places of the way if you are treading them, or if the way be rough, thank God for it. If God should always rock us in the cradle of prosperity, if we were always dandled on

2:06the knees of fortune, if we had not some stain on the alabaster pillar, if they were not a few clouds in the sky, if we had not some bitter drops in the wine of this life, we should become intoxicated with pleasure, we should dream, we stand, and stand we should, but it would be upon a pinnacle, like the man asleep upon the mast, each moment we should be in jeopardy. We bless God then for our afflictions, we thank Him for our changes, we extoll His name for losses of property, for we feel that He has not chastened us thus we might have become too secure. Continued worldly prosperity is a fiery trial, afflictions though they seem severe in mercy often are sent. May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy

3:07Spirit be with you all and remain present with you throughout this day.