Greetings,
Another reading from Charles H. Spurgeon (one of the greatest English preachers at the turn of the century).
You have made the Lord your refuge, even the Most High your dwelling place.
Psalm 91:9
In the wilderness the Israelites were continually exposed to change. When the pillar stopped, the tents were pitches, but tomorrow, before the morning sun had risen, the trumpet sounded, the ark was in motion, and the fiery, cloudy pillar was leading the way through the narrow trails of the mountain, up the hillside, or along the arid waste of the wilderness. They had scarcely time to rest a little before they heard the sound of “Away! this is not your rest; you must still be onward journeying toward Canaan!” Even wells and palm trees could not detain them. Yet they had an abiding home in their God. His cloudy pillar was their roof, and its flame by night their household fire. They must go onward from place to place, continually changing. “Yet,” says Moses, “though we are always changing, Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place through all generations.” The Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich today and poor tomorrow; he may be sickly today, and well tomorrow; he may be in happiness today, tomorrow he may be distressed—but there is no change with regard to his relationship to God. If He loved me yesterday, He loves me today. He is my strong habitation whereunto I can continually resort (See Psalm 71:3). I am a pilgrim in the world, but I am at home in my God.
Yours & His,
DED
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