Only a prayer meeting - Spurgeon - IX - 'Another spiritual honey-drop'

Required reading
Only a prayer meeting by Charles Spurgeon (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read the chapter entitled 'Another spiritual honey-drop'.

My summary
This week we read two short expositions.

Firstly we read Spurgeon's thoughts on "And He said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.'''—Exodus xxxiii. 14.  Spurgeon encourages us to know that God's presence goes with us everywhere and that God gives us rest.

Secondly Spurgeon teaches us about the three 'thens' in Leviticus 26:
(i) the 'then' of promise and threatening;
(ii) the 'then' of wise and penitent action;
(iii) the 'then' of God remembering his covenant.

What grabbed me
It was good for me to read Spurgeon's encouragement to rest: 'Mark the kind of rest that is here mentioned. " I will give thee rest." All the rest that God gives us, we may safely take. No man ever rested too long upon the bosom of Jesus. I believe that many Christian workers would be better if they enjoyed more rest. I was speaking to the ministers at the Conference upon this matter, my subject being the Saviour asleep during the storm on the Sea of Galilee. He knew there was a storm coming on, but He felt so happy and restful in His Father's love and care that He went into the hinder part of the ship, the best place for sleeping, deliberately took a pillow, lay down, and went to sleep. It was the very best thing He could do. He had been busy all day, teaching and feeding the multitudes, and He felt that it was His duty to go to sleep that He might be ready for the next day's toil. When you get very weary, and perhaps worried as well, the best thing you can do is to go to sleep. Go to bed, brother; and go to sleep. It is astonishing what a difference a night's rest makes with our troubles. I would say this literally to fidgety, worrying people, like myself, " Go to bed, brother, go to bed." But I would also say it spiritually to all sorts of people; when you are feeling weak, and disturbed, and you do not know what to do for the best, " Go into the presence of God, and there get rest." " My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest."'

These days I'm often skipping sleep to get more done. 

So it was a timely reminder that God gives us work but also gives us rest.  And Jesus himself demonstrated this.

Next week's reading
Read the chapter entitled 'An address for sad times'.

Now it's your turn
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