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Ärende: Sufferers Make Strong Believers
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Faith's Checkbook  

Charles H. Spurgeon
Sep 10, 2006

 

September 11 




Sufferers Make Strong Believers 

"It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth" (Lamentations 3:27). 

This is as good as a promise. It has been good, it is good, and it will be good
for me to bear the yoke. 

Early in life I had to feel the weight of conviction, and ever since it has
proved a soul enriching burden. Should I have loved the gospel so well had I
not learned by deep experience the need of salvation by grace? Jabez was more
honorable than his brethren because his mother bare him with sorrow, and those
who suffer much in being born unto God make strong believers in sovereign
grace. 

The yoke of censure is an irksome one, but it prepares a man for future honor.
He is not fit to be a leader who has not run the gauntlet of contempt. Praise
intoxicates if it be not preceded by abuse. Men who rise to eminence without
struggle usually fall into dishonor. 

The yoke of affliction, disappointment, and excessive labor is by no means to
be sought for; but when the LORD lays it on us in our youth, it frequently
develops a character which glorifies God and blesses the church. 

Come, my soul, bow thy neck; take up they cross. It was good for thee when
young; it will not harm thee now. For Jesus' sake, shoulder it carefully. 

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A certain cure for every ill 




The following is from Spurgeon’s sermon,  “GOOD WORKS IN GOOD COMPANYö 

Communion with Christ is a Certain Cure For Every Ill. 

Whether it be the bitterness of woe, or the cloying  overabundance of earthly
delight, close fellowship  with the Lord Jesus will take the gall from the one,
 and the satiety from the other. 

Live near to Jesus, Christian, and it is matter of  secondary import whether
you live on the ‘mountain of  honor’ or in the ‘valley of humiliation’. 

Live near to Jesus, and the glowing coals of the  furnace cannot consume you,
nor the chill blasts  of wintry affliction destroy you. 

Living near to Jesus, you are covered with the wings  of God, and underneath
you are the everlasting arms. 






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