Its crazy how I wrote about having a good day yesterday, and feeling above the old ways I have struggled. Only to be pulled down by some again today. I feel as though my temptations of Self and trials I receive are never far. I know a temptation itself is no sin. But I am a sinner that falls victim to my temptations everyday, whatever they must be. Its life I guess, and it seems easy some days, and hard most others. I absolutely love C.H. Spurgeon. All though he is a bit over my head at times, he puts things the way they are, with no holding back at all. Going through the day and feeling down on myself, I went to his devotion for the evening, and it was on Faith. I love the last part of it that says:
" You are a tree that never would have rooted so well if the wind had not rocked you to and fro, and made you take firm hold upon the precious truths of the covenant grace. Worldly ease is a great foe to faith; it loosens the joints of holy valour, and snaps the sinews of sacred courage. The balloon never rises until the cords are cut; affliction doth this sharp service for believing souls. While the wheat sleeps comfortably in the husk it is useless to man, it must be threshed out of its resting place before its value can be known. Thus it is well that Jehovah trieth the righteous, for it causeth them to grow rich towards God."
Worldly ease is a great foe to faith! Man he is good, and makes me feel tougher by reading this devotion. Earlier in the text, he said this:
"Yet no shower falls unpermitted from the threatening cloud; every drop has its order ere it hastens to the earth."
God is in control! Although I am thrown things I don't believe as a human, I can handle. Like the death of my brother. But I do believe God can handle them all. He will not allow a storm to come that I cannot survive and make it through a better, stronger, and a wiser person because God is by my side. He is my ultimate Shield from the storm.
I love you, and I am blessed to share this with you. The good news.
JARED
P.S. Satan, Here is my foot stomping on your head!
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