And the Lord shall guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and make fat your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Isaiah 58:11.

“There is a holier, happier, and more exalted state of triumphant faith, of sweet communion, and of hallowed earnestness. And such a state is attainable, nay, it ought to be attained by all Christians, and when attained it ought to be their constant ambition never to backslide from it. Having once been placed upon the high mountain by a divine hand, they should ever pray to be kept there, to the praise and glory of the grace of God.”

“Brethren, if we are enabled by grace to seek close and vital union with Christ, and to live upon Him daily and continually, we may rest assured that whether our experience be gloomy or delightful, and whether our inward conflicts or joys be paramount, He will still be at the helm and will guide us continually.”

“Christian, God has not left you in your earthly pilgrimage to an angel’s guidance. He Himself will lead the van. You may not see the cloudy, fiery pillar, but JEHOVAH shall never forsake you. JEHOVAH shall guide you continually. Notice the word shall—“The LORD shall guide thee.” How certain this makes it! How sure it is that God will not forsake us! His precious “shalls” and “wills” are better than men’s oaths. “I will never leave nor forsake thee.” In one place He puts in five negatives, “I will not leave thee; I will never, never, never, forsake thee.”

How sure it is that God will not forsake us! His precious “shalls” and “wills” are better than men’s oaths.

“And you, friend, when you are in good full work, and wages are high, and the house is wellfurnished, and the cupboard is full, it is very easy then for you to kneel down at family prayer and thank God for His kindness. But how about when the husband is sick, when the funds have got very low, and when the little children look at their father wondering where the next meal will come from—to be satisfied even then that it is all right! Oh this is a grand thing! This is the mark of difference between the Christian and the worldling. The worldling blesses God while He gives him plenty, but the Christian blesses Him when He smites him—he believes Him to be too wise to err and too good to be unkind. He trusts Him where he cannot trace Him, looks up to Him in the darkest hour, and believes that all is well. O Christian, if your heart is right, you will understand this spiritual satisfaction, and your soul will be satisfied in times of drought.”

“Come then, let us wrap our cloak about us with a word of joy and comfort, and go our way into the cold, bleak world, rejoicing that if our hearts are right, we are resting upon the source of every precious thing. Let us go forth and rejoice that we have within us a life that can never die. That we have a something within us that can satisfy us in the worst of times. That God is with us, to be our guide and our dear companion. Being the favored sons of heaven, and the heirs of immortality, let us eat our bread with joy. Let us cheer our poverty with hope. Let us make glad our times of trial with holy rejoicing. Let us rejoice in the Lord always, and shout for joy, and so may His blessed Spirit help us to live to His glory.”

“Sinner, there is yet hope. This is not the realm of despair. Not yet has the great iron key grated in the lock to shut you forever in the dungeon! It is said of Christ that, “He openeth and no man shutteth.” He can open heaven to you. Trust Him with your whole heart, mourning for sin and hating it. Rest in His blood! Find a shelter beneath His cross, and He will not, cannot cast you away, for “He is able to save them to the uttermost who come unto God by him.” May you so come, and then may your Christian life be fraught with happiness, and overflowing with joy, so that you may sing in the words of David, with which I close—“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.”

A HAPPY CHRISTIAN (excerpts)
A SERMON BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON.
Sermon #736

SOURCE: http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols13-15/chs736.pdf

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