March 3rd 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 3rd. I have chosen thee in the Furnace of Affliction, Isaiah 48 verse 10. Comfort thyself-tried believer with this thought. God sayeth, I have chosen thee in the Furnace of Affliction. That's not the word come like a soft shower, a swaging the fury of the flame.

1:02Yay, is it not in his bestest armor, against which the heat hath no power? Detofliction come, God has chosen me. Pobity thou most stride in at my door, but God is in the house already, and he has chosen me. Sickness thou most intrude, but I have a bolson ready, God has chosen me. Whatever befalls me in this veil of tears, I know that he has chosen me. If, believer, thou requires still greater comfort, remember that you have the Son of Man with you in the Furnace. In that silent chamber of yours, they're siteth by your side, one whom thou hast not seen, but whom thou lovest. And of times when thou knowest it not, he makes all thy bed in thy affliction, and smooths thy pillow for thee. Thou art in poverty, but in that lovely house of thine, the Lord of life and glory is a frequent

2:04visitor. He loves to come into these desolate places that he may visit thee. Thy friend sticks closely to thee, thou canst not see him, but thou most feel the pressure of his hands. Most thou not hear his voice. Even in the valley of the shadow of death he says, fear not, I am with thee. Be not dismayed, for I am thy God. Remember that noble speech of Caesar, fear not thou carrest Caesar and all his fortune. Fear not Christian, Jesus is with thee. In all thy fiery trials, his presence is both thy comfort and safety. We will never leave one whom he has chosen for his own. Fear not, for I am with thee, is his sure word of promise to his chosen ones in the furnace of affliction. Will thou not then take fasthold of Christ and say, through floods and flames if Jesus

3:07lead, I'll follow where he goes. May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all and remain present with you throughout this day.