Deliverance From Dust And Chaff

                                                                                 
The sifting process is going on still. 

Wherever we go, we are still being winnowed and sifted. 

In all countries God's people are being tried "like as corn is sifted in a sieve." 

Sometimes the devil holds the sieve and tosses us up and down at a great rate, with the earnest desire to get rid of us forever.

Unbelief is not slow to agitate our heart and mind with its restless fears. 

The world lends a willing hand at the same process and shakes us to the right and to the left with great vigor. 

Worst of all, the church, so largely apostate as it is, comes in to give a more furious force to the sifting process. 

Well, well! Let it go on. 

Thus is the chaff severed from the wheat. 

Thus is the wheat delivered from dust and chaff.

And how great is the mercy which comes to us in the text, "Yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth"! 

All shall be preserved that is good, true, gracious.

Not one of the least of believers lose anything worth calling a loss. 

We shall be so kept in the sifting that it shall be a real gain to us through Christ Jesus.

~Charles Spurgeon~

Pray Our Beloved To Print The Image Of His Bleeding Self Upon The Tablets Of Our Hearts!

Isa 53:3  He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
 
Isa 53:4  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
 
Isa 53:5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
 
Pilate delivered our Lord to the Roman lictors to be scourged. 

The Roman scourge was a most dreadful instrument of torture. 

It was made of the sinews of oxen, and sharp bones were intertwined among the sinews; so that every time the lash came down, these pieces of bone inflicted fearful laceration and tore off the flesh from the bone. 

The Savior was, no doubt, bound to the whipping post and thus beaten. 

He had been beaten before; but this flagellation of the Roman lictors was probably the most severe of His scourgings.

My soul, stand here and weep over His poor stricken body! 

Believer, can you gaze upon Him without tears as He stands before you, the mirror of agonizing love? 

He is at once as white as the lily for innocence, and as red as the rose with the crimson of His own blood.

As we feel the sure and blessed healing that His stripes have wrought in us-does not our heart melt at once with love and grief?

If ever we have loved our Lord Jesus, surely we must feel that affection glowing now within our bosoms.

We would be compelled to go to our chambers and weep, but our business calls us away. 

So we will first pray our Beloved to print the image of His bleeding self upon the tablets of our hearts all the day...

And at nightfall we will return to commune with Him and sorrow that our sin should have cost Him so dearly!

~Charles Spurgeon~

A Mark Which Is Always Set Upon Christ's Sheep, And Never Set Upon Any Others!

Rom 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

There are some graces which in their vigor are not absolutely essential to the bare existence of spiritual life, though they are very important for its healthy growth. 

But True Love for God must be in the heart-or else there is no grace there whatever. 

If a man does not love God, then he is not a renewed man. 

Love for God is a mark which is always set upon Christ's sheep, and never set upon any others.

I have no right, therefore, to believe that I am a regenerated person-unless my heart Truly and Sincerely Loves God. 

If I have been regenerated, I will not be perfect, but this one thing I can say: "Lord, You know all things. You know that I love You!"

When by believing we receive the privilege to become sons of God-we also receive the nature of sons, and with filial love we cry, "Abba, Father!"

There is no exception to this rule! 

If a man does not sincerely love God-then he is not born of God. 

As the sun must give forth its light-so must a soul that has been created anew by divine grace, display its nature by earnest affection toward God. 

You are not born again, unless you love God. 

Sincere love to God is indispensable!

1Co 16:22  If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha. 

~Charles Spurgeon~