Faith's Checkbook (By: C.H. Spurgeon)

June 20, 2011

                                                                                    The Lord Is Our Companion

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

                                                                                     ~ Psalm 23:4

AGONIES OF DEATH

  "Although many have repeated these words in their last hours with intense delight, they are equally applicable to agonies of spirit in the midst of life.

VALLEY OF DEATH

  Some of us, like Paul, die daily through a tendency to gloom of soul. Some of us have traversed the dark and dreadful defile of "the shadow of death" several times, and we can bear witness that the Lord alone enabled us to bear up amid its wild thought, its mysterious horrors, and its terrible depressions. We have been pressed and oppressed, but yet we have lived, for we have felt the presence of the Great Shepherd and have been confident that His crook would prevent the foe from giving us any deadly wound.
  Should the present time be one darkened by the raven wings of a great sorrow, let us glorify God by a peaceful trust in Him.
(By: Charles H. Spurgeon ~ One Minute Devotions)