Spurgeon Meditations

 

Thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation.

Psa 91 9

The Israelites in the wilderness were continually exposed to change. Whenever the pillar stayed its motion the tents were pitched; but tomorrow ere the morning sun had risen the trumpet sounded the ark was in motion and the fiery cloudy pillar was leading the way through the narrow defiles of the mountain up the hillside or along the arid waste of the wilderness. They had scarcely time to rest a little before they heard the sound of "Away! this is not your rest; you must still be onward journeying towards Canaan!" They were never long in one place. Even wells and palm trees could not detain them. Yet they had an abiding home in their God His cloudy pillar was their roof-tree and its flame by night their household fire. They must go onward from place to place continually changing never having time to settle and to say Now we are secure; inthis place we shall dwell. Yet, says Moses though we arealways changing, Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-placethroughout all generations. The Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may be rich to-day and poor to-morrow; he may be sickly to-day and well to-morrow; he may be in happiness to-day to-morrow he may be distressed--but there is no change with regard to his relationship to God. If He loved me yesterday He loves me to-day. My unmoving mansion of rest is my blessed Lord. Let prospects be blighted; let hopes be blasted; let joy be withered; let mildews destroy everything; I have lost nothing of what I have in God. He is "my strong habitation whereunto I can continually resort." I am a pilgrim in the world but at home in my God. In the earth I wander but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.


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