Spurgeon: February AM
* 02/27/AM
"Thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the Most
High, thy habitation."
--Psalm 91:9
The Israelites in the wilderness were continually exposed to
change . Whenever the pillar stayed its motion, the tents were
pitched; but tomorrow, ere 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 defiles 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 towards Canaan!" They were never long in
one place. Even wells and palm trees could not detain them. Yet
they had an abiding home in their God, His cloudy pillar was
their roof-tree, and its flame by night their household fire.
They must go onward from place to place, continually changing,
never having time to settle, and to say, "Now we are secure; in
this place we shall dwell." "Yet," says Moses, "though we are
always changing, Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place
throughout all generations." The Christian knows no change with
regard to God. He may be rich to-day and poor to-morrow; he may
be sickly to-day and well to-morrow; he may be in happiness
to-day, to-morrow he may be distressed--but there is no change
with regard to his relationship to God. If He loved me
yesterday, He loves me to-day. My unmoving mansion of rest is my
blessed Lord. Let prospects be blighted; let hopes be blasted;
let joy be withered; let mildews destroy everything; I have lost
nothing of what I have in God. He is "my strong habitation
whereunto I can continually resort." I am a pilgrim in the
world, but at home in my God. In the earth I wander, but in God
I dwell in a quiet habitation.