Spurgeon: October AM
* 10/23/AM
"Will ye also go away?"
--John 6:67
Many have forsaken Christ, and have walked no more with Him;
but what reason have YOU to make a change ? Has there been any
reason for it in the past ? Has not Jesus proved Himself
all-sufficient? He appeals to you this morning--"Have I been a
wilderness unto you?" When your soul has simply trusted Jesus,
have you ever been confounded? Have you not up till now found
your Lord to be a compassionate and generous friend to you, and
has not simple faith in Him given you all the peace your spirit
could desire? Can you so much as dream of a better friend than
He has been to you? Then change not the old and tried for new
and false. As for the present , can that compel you to leave
Christ? When we are hard beset with this world, or with the
severer trials within the Church, we find it a most blessed
thing to pillow our head upon the bosom of our Saviour. This is
the joy we have to-day that we are saved in Him; and if this joy
be satisfying, wherefore should we think of changing? Who
barters gold for dross? We will not forswear the sun till we
find a better light, nor leave our Lord until a brighter lover
shall appear; and, since this can never be, we will hold Him
with a grasp immortal, and bind His name as a seal upon our arm.
As for the future , can you suggest anything which can arise
that shall render it necessary for you to mutiny, or desert the
old flag to serve under another captain? We think not. If life
be long--He changes not. If we are poor, what better than to
have Christ who can make us rich? When we are sick, what more do
we want than Jesus to make our bed in our sickness? When we die,
is it not written that "neither death, nor life, nor things
present, nor things to come, shall be able to separate us from
the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord!" We say with
Peter, "Lord, to whom shall we go?"