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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. This is beautiful faith on the part of Job. It is very easy for us to read these lines, and to say, “No doubt, tried men do come out of the furnace purified like gold;” but it is quite another thing to be ourselves in the crucible, and to read such a passage as this by the light of the fire, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he knoweth the way that I take: Oh, what a mercy that is! “I cannot see him, but he can see me; my grief hath blinded mine eyes with floods of tears, but nothing blinds his eyes. Like as a father pitieth his children, so does he pity me, and regards me with the full observation of his gigantic mind: ‘ He knoweth the way that I take.’”...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he knoweth the way that I take: If I do not know his way, he knows mine. If I cannot find him, he can find me. Here is my comfort: “He knoweth the way that I take.” Job_23:10. When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. Here the true Job comes to the front. You get the gracious man once more on his feet. He staggered a little; but he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. It is a great thing to be able to say that, as Job truly could, for we have the witness of the Spirit of God that Job was “perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.” It was not self-righteousness that made him speak as he did; he had the right to say it, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. You cannot talk like that in the time of trouble if you have not led a sincere, and upright, and gracious life. those battles into which men come in the Valley of Humiliation, are often brought about by their tripping when they are going down the hill. Our sins find us out at...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined. Happy Job, to be able to say that, and to speak the truth; but there is a touch of self about it which we cannot quite commend. Be holy; but do not claim to be holy. Be thou steadfast before God, firm in thine obedience to him; but do not mention it; for thy hope lies somewhere...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? “His mind is made up to chasten me; he means to afflict me again and again; so what can I do but yield to his will?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? Job looks at his grief, and says concerning it, “It is according to God’s mind that I should have this grief, and who can turn him?” there may be times when God wills that his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. Job was a happy man to be able to say that. I hope that many of you could say the same. If you were tried with great bodily pain and depression of spirit, you could say, through divine grace, “I have not turned away from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. There is, on Job’s part, a reverential bowing before the supreme power an acknowledgment of God’s right to do with him as he wills.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him. Therefore am f troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. Yet he longed for him. So, sometimes, we long for the presence of God, yet that presence strikes us with a solemn awe whenever We are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? God has one mind, and he will carry out what he wills. It is vain for any man to think of turning him from his eternal purpose.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And what his soul desireth, even that he doth. For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him. You will find that men who are much tried fall back upon the granite foundation of the divine decree. God has ordained it, so they yield to it; they acquiesce in it because it is according to the eternal purpose...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him. “More arrows to pierce me, more sorrows to grieve me.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him. For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face. He wished that he had died before those evil days had come upon him; and that is the way that a good man, an...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
for God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face. Now you see where you might be if you had Job’s experience. If you are not there, be very grateful; and if you are there, say, there is a better man than I am who has been this way before...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me: Are you saying that tonight? If so, I am glad you are here. I have, for many years, been compassed about with a large number of persons who come from the ends of England and Scotland, and from longer distances, too, in despair of soul, and seeking comfort; but I think that never in my...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face. He wished he had died before he came to such trouble, or that by some means such trouble had been turned away from him. May the Lord, if he sends you Job’s trouble, send you Job’s consolation! May he glorify himself by your patient endurance, if he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? “Why do they live so long? Why do they appear to have such prosperity?”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge. They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. “They are hard-hearted enough to rob even poor widows and orphan children.”