Online Christian Literature Index
"None of us
can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of
trials. As the sycamore fig never ripens if it be not bruised, as
the corn does not leave the husk without threshing, and as wheat
makes no fine flour until it be ground, so are we of little use till
we are afflicted. Why should we be so eager to escape such
benefits?" - Spurgeon
By Charles H. Spurgeon
(1834 - 1892)
"...Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day..." Exodus 14:13
THESE words contain God’s command to the
believer when he is reduced to great straits and brought into
extraordinary difficulties. He cannot retreat; he cannot go forward;
he is shut up on the right hand and on the left; what is he now to
do? The Master’s word to him is, “Stand still.”
By Peter Sarkis
At first Peter was safely walking on the water going
towards Jesus. But when He took His eyes off Jesus and looked around
him and saw how the wind was boisterous, he was afraid and
“beginning to sink he cried out, saying, ‘Lord, save me!’” (Matt.
14:30). In the same way when we are going through the storms of life
and take our eyes off Christ and look at our circumstances, we
become afraid and disheartened.
