March 4th 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 4th. My grace is sufficient for thee, 2 Corinthians 12 verse 9. If none of God's saints were poor and tried, we should not know half so well the consolations of divine grace. When we find the wonderer who has not where to lay his head, who yet can say, still will

1:00I trust in the Lord, or when we see the pauper starving on bread and water, who still glories in Jesus, when we see the bereaved widow overwhelmed in affliction, and yet having faith in Christ, oh, what honor it reflects on the gospel. God's grace is illustrated and magnified in the poverty and trials of believers. Saints bear up under every discouragement, believing that all things work together for their good, and that out of apparent evils a real blessing shall ultimately spring, that their God will either work a deliverance for them speedily, or most assuredly, support them in the trouble as long as he is pleased to keep them in it. This patience of the saints proves the power of divine grace. There is a lighthouse out at sea, it is a calm night, I cannot tell whether the edifice is firm, the tempest must rage about it, and then I shall know whether it will stand.

2:03So with the spirit's work, if it were not on many occasions surrounded with tempestuous waters, we should not know that it was true and strong. If the winds did not blow upon it, we should not know how firm and secure it was. The masterworks of God are those men who stand in the midst of difficulties, steadfast and movable, calm mid-the bewildering cry, confident of victory. He who would glorify his God must set his account upon meeting with many trials. No man can be illustrious before the Lord, unless his conflicts be many. If then yours be a much-tried path, rejoicing it, because you will better show forth the all-sufficient grace of God. As for his failing you, never dream of it, hate the thought. The God who has been sufficient until now should be trusted to the end.

3:09May you find his favour in every step you take today, and may God guide your heart, mind and hand to do every good work which is pleasing in his sight.