September Promise Message byPastor Jacob Koshy .
Pastor Jacob Koshy is the best worship leader among all worship leaders in India. He will move you in to the presence of god. During worship you will fill with the presence of god.
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Pastor Jacob Koshy is the best worship leader among all worship leaders in India. He will move you in to the presence of god. During worship you will fill with the presence of god.
We need not spend much time in thinking of these evils, because they throw themselves in our way often enough; and the tendency of our mind is to unduly exaggerate them. Notice that the perils and trials of the wilderness occur very early in the pilgrim life. It is a notion, I have no doubt, of very young Christians who still have the shell upon their heads and are scarcely hatched, that their trials are over now that they have become winged with faith; it would have been far better for them to consider that their trials have just begun with tenfold force, now that they are numbered with the servants of the Most High. Whatever else does not come to you, oh servant of God, this will surely be fulfilled,
“In the world you shall have tribulation.” “What son is he whom the Father does not chasten?” Some privileges are not common to all the adopted, but the privilege of chastisement is universal for all true sons. It is the sign of a bastard if the rod is spared, but scourging, is the sure pledge of paternal love. I say, however, that these trials come very soon. Israel was no sooner across the Red Sea than they went three days into the wilderness of Shur, but found no water; and on the third day, when they did arrive at a fountain, they found it to be worse than no water, for it was so brackish, so altogether unfit for drinking, that though they thought they would have drunk anything, they could not possibly drink this.
What, in three days, must those who sang to the Lord because he triumphed gloriously, become nauseous over the water for which their thirst makes them pant? In three days shall they be reduced to such straits that they must drink or die, and yet feel that they would die if they were to drink of such nauseous streams?
Ah yes, with some of us our delight at conversion was very great, our exhilaration at finding the Saviour was something never to be forgotten, and yet only a day or so after we were tripped up by a great temptation, amazed at the discovery of the evil of our hearts, or tried by the coldness of our fellow Christians, or the cruelty of the outside world, so that we found we had come to Marah. And this was all the more severe trial, because some of us had found a degree of pleasure in the ways of sin, and now it amazed us to find sorrow in the ways of God. When Israel was in Egypt, they drank from the Nile River.
That was no ordinary water. To this day the dwellers on the banks of the Nile assert that the water has a particular taste not to be found in any other stream, and they prefer the waters of the Nile to all the waters in the world besides. What a change from the sweetness of the Nile to the bitterness of Marah! Did not the suggestion rise in their hearts, “It was better with us in the bondage of Egypt, with water in abundance, than it is now in the liberty of the wilderness with the bitterness of Marah?” The devil tempted some of us at the very first by saying: “See what you have gained by being a Christian.
While you were as others are, your mind had mirth; now you have come out and followed the Crucified, you have lost the liveliness of your spirits, the brightness of your wit — what made life worth having is taken away from you.” Young Christian, is that your case today? Do not be fooled and neither believe the enemy. Man, it would be better to die at Marah free, than to live as a slave by the sweet Nile. Even men who do not know the Spirit of God have felt it would be better to die free than live as slaves, and truly to be a slave to Satan is so degrading a thing, that if this mouth were for ever filled with Marah’s bitterness, yet it would be better to be so than to be enchanted with the pleasures of sin.
Yet these early trials are very severe, and need much grace lest they cause us great mischief.
