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Ärende: Enemies at Peace 
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Faith's Checkbook  


Charles H. Spurgeon
Apr 16, 2006

 

April 17 
Enemies at Peace 

"When a man's ways please the LORD, He maketh even his enemies to be at peace
with him" (Proverbs 16:7). 

I must see that my ways please the LORD. Even then I shall have enemies; and,
perhaps, all the more certainly because I endeavor to do that which is right.
But what a promise this is! The LORD will make the wrath of man to praise Him
and abate it so that it shall not distress me. 

He can constrain an enemy to desist from harming me, even though he has a mind
to do so. This He did with Laban, who pursued Jacob but did not dare to touch
him. Or He can subdue the wrath of the enemy and make him friendly, as He did
with Esau, who met Jacob in a brotherly manner, though Jacob had dreaded that
he would smite him and his family with the sword. The LORD can also convert a
furious adversary into a brother in Christ and a fellow worker, as He did with
Saul of Tarsus. Oh, that He would do this in every case where a persecuting
spirit appears! 

Happy is the man whose enemies are made to be to him what the lions were to
Daniel in the den, quiet and companionable! When I meet death, who is called
the last enemy, I pray that I may be at peace. Only let my great care be to
please the LORD in all things. Oh, for faith and holiness; for these are a
pleasure unto the Most High! 





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FOR YOU! 

Is Jesus precious to your heart? Is He the object of your supreme admiration
and delight? Does He have your warmest affection? Do you love Jesus? You must
light your torch of affection for Christ, at the altar of Calvary. You must go
there, and learn and believe what the love of Jesus is to you—the vastness of
that love; the self sacrifice of that love; how that love of Christ labored and
wept, bled, suffered, and died for you! Can you stand before this love; this
love so precious, so great, so enduring, so self-consuming, so changeless; and
know that for you was this offering—for you this cross—for you this agony—for
you this scorn and insult—for you this death; and feel no sensibility, no
emotion, no love to Jesus? Impossible! 

Do not be cast down, then, in vain regrets that your love to Christ is so
frigid, so fickle, so dubious. Go and muse upon the reality and the greatness
of the Savior's love to you, and if love can inspire love, while you muse, the
fire will burn, and your soul shall be all in flame with love to God! 
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