I guess I could have entitled this one "Preppers, Part III" but really, I don't want to beat a dead horse. And, also, they are not the only ones who give into fear. For the most part, many of them are probably not believers. And believers definitely, and I would say overall, give into worry and fear when we know what God's word says about both. Today's post is from Charles Spurgeon's Morning and Evening, evening of April 8th. It is a beautiful writing of the believer's great privilege to shine in the midst of bad circumstances. (I share only parts of it.)
"I will fear no evil: for Thou art with me."--Psalm 23:4
"Behold, how independent of outward circumstances the Holy Ghost can make the Christian! What a bright light may shine within us when it is all dark without! How firm, how happy, how calm, how peaceful we may be, when the world shakes to and fro, and the pillars of the earth are removed! Even death itself, with all its terrible influences, has no power to suspend the music of a Christian's heart, but rather makes that music become more sweet, more clear, more heavenly...! Are you conscious of a growing failure of your bodily powers? Do you expect to suffer long nights of languishing and days of pain? O be not sad! That bed may become a throne to you. You little know how every pang that shoots through your body may be a refining fire to consume your dross--a beam of glory to light up the secret parts of your soul. By thy power, O blessed Spirit, my heart shall be exceeding glad, though all things should fail me here below."
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