March 7th 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 7th. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. Psalm 118. Tautless, the reader has been tried with the temptation to rely upon the things which are seen, instead of resting alone upon the invisible God. Christians often look to man for help and

1:01counsel and mar the noble simplicity of their reliance upon their God. Does this evening's portion meet the eye of a child of God anxious about temperels? Then would we reason with Him a while? You trust in Jesus and only in Jesus for your salvation. Then why are you troubled? Because of my great care. Is it not written, cost I burden upon the Lord? Be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, make known your wants unto God. Can not you trust God for temperels? Ah, I wish I could. If you cannot trust God for temperels, how dare you trust Him for spirituals? Can you trust Him for your soul's redemption, and not rely upon Him for a few lesser mercies? Is not God good enough for thy need, or is His all sufficiency to narrow for thy wants?

2:04Does thy want another eye beside that of Him who sees every secret thing? Is His heart faint? Is His arm weary? If so seek another God, but if He be infinite, omnipotent, faithful, true, and all wise, why get a star broad so much to seek another confidence? Why does star-rake the earth to find another foundation? When this is strong enough to bear all the weight which thou canst ever build thereon? Christian, mix not only thy wine with water, do not alloweth thy gold of faith with a dross of human confidence. Wait thou only upon God, and yet thy expectation be from Him? Covered not Jonas God, but rest in Jonas God. Let the sandy foundations of terrestrial trust be the choice of fools, but do thou, like one who foresees the storm, build for thyself an abiding place upon the rock of ages.

3:15May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all as you rest this night.