"For You have been my help, and in the
shadow of Your wings will I rejoice."
Psalm 63:7
On Eagle's Wings
Jack E. Dawson
Live by the day-aye, by the hour. Put not trust in frames and feelings.
Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement. Trust in God alone,
and lean not on the reeds of human help. Be not surprised when friends fail you:
it is a failing world. Never count immutability in a man: inconstancy you
may reckon upon without fear of disappointment.
The disciples of Jesus forsook him; be not amazed if your adherents
wander away to other teachers: as they were not your all when with you,
all is not gone from you with their departure. Serve God with all your
might while the candle is burning and then when it goes out for
a season, you will have the less to regret.
Be content to be nothing, for that is what you are.
When your own emptiness is painfully forced upon your consciousness,
chide yourself that you ever dreamed of being full, except in the Lord.
Set small store by present rewards; be grateful for earnests by the way,
but look for the recompensing joy hereafter.
Continue with double earnestness to serve your Lord when no
visible result is before you. Any simpleton can follow the narrow path
in the light: faith's rare wisdom enables us to march on in the dark with
infallible accuracy, since she places her hand in that of her great Guide.
Between this and heaven there may be rougher weather yet, but all
is provided for by our covenant Head.
In nothing let us be turned aside from the path which the divine
call has urged us to pursue. Come fair or come foul, the pulpit is
our watchtower, and the ministry is our warfare; be it ours,
when we cannot see the face of God, to trust under
the shadow of His wings.
"Under The Shadow"
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
(1834-1892)
English preacher and writer.
Often called, the "prince of preachers" he was
the pastor of New Park Street Baptist Church in
London, England for 38 years.
He also founded the Pastor's College, where he
taught over 900 men for the ministry.
During his lifetime, Charles Spurgeon wrote and published
many different sermons as well as many books, including,
"Morning and Evening" and "Lectures To My Students".
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