Sensitive to Warning

Sensitive to Warning, April 3
Author: Charles H. Spurgeon From the book: Faith's Checkbook

"Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the LORD, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before Me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD" - 2 Kings 22:19

Many despise warning and perish. Happy is he who trembles at the Word of God. Josiah did so, and he was spared the sight of the evil which the LORD determined to send upon Judah because of her great sins. Have you this tenderness? Do you practice this self-humiliation? Then you also shall be spared in the evil day. God sets a mark upon the men that sigh and cry because of the sin of the times. The destroying angel is commanded to keep his sword in its sheath till the elect of God are sheltered: these are best known by their godly fear and their trembling at the Word of the LORD. Are the times threatening? Does infidelity advance with great strides, and do you dread national chastisement upon this polluted nation? Well you may. Yet rest in this promise: "Thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace: and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which l will bring upon this place." Better still, the LORD Himself may come, and then the days of our mourning shall be ended.

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Lord, come quickly for your elect. Bring us into our Promised Land, as this land is so wicked, defiled, putrid and degenerate. Break our hearts to break like yours when you see the sin in this land. Give us the same righteous hatred for sin that You have for the sins of the Land. God, I pray that we will mourn at the thought of sin, at the thought of hurting you. I pray that we will remember the words you have given us and tremble, knowing that all which you have spoken will come to pass. But let us, your children, also rejoice that you will protect us. Let your Gospel go forth, let your truth be heard and many souls come to know Grace Upon Grace. Agape.