Spurgeon Series Part Ceathair (4)

Last night as a grueling headache took me away from my plans, i lay there calmly remembering from where God has brought me. Two years ago when a headache like this one would come on, panic was sure to follow. But now i know, it is just a headache, God has allowed this kind of pain in my life before and my brains did not implode or explode.
Two years ago i would have hopelessly cried out, "How long, O Lord?!" (Ps. 13:1) and even as i do now, i know that it is for my good and God's Glory. I may think on Joseph - who waited 13 years from being sold into slavery by his brothers until being elevated second only to Pharaoh - and be comforted. I may rejoice in God's power and Salvation, "though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ" (1Peter:1:6-7).

In Six Troubles.
Job 5:19

Remember what God has done for you and then say, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever" (Heb. 13:8). When you are praying, if you cannot see that He is comfortable towards you today, recall what He was yesterday. If there is no present manifestations of divine favor, remember the past. He has been gracious. Can you tell how gracious? He has abounded towards you in loving kindness, tenderness, and faithfulness. He has never been a wilderness or a land of drought for you. Well then, in six troubles He has delivered you, will you not trust Him for seven? (Job 5:19). If you get to sixty troubles, will you not trust Him for sixty-one?

We say we ought always to trust someone until they deceive us. We recon someone honest until we find otherwise. Let it be so with God. Since we have found Him good, faithful, true, kind and tender, let us not think badly of Him now that we have come to difficult straits. Come to Him and say, "Are You our God? Did You not bring us 'up out of the horrible pit, out of the mire clay' (Ps. 40:2)? Surely, then, You will not leave us now."

The wonders God can do! He loves us to state our difficulty, that when He gets us out we will well remember the condition we were in.

After pleading the promise and confessing our condition, we may say, "Lord, if help does come, it must come from You. It cannot come from anywhere else, so we look to You. We believe help will come. Though we do not know how it will come, we are looking to You. Though we do not know when, we are looking to You. Though we do not know what You would have us do, still we are looking to You. Our eyes may be full of tears, but they are on You."
-Charles H. Spurgeon