{"id":7901,"date":"2013-04-06T01:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=7901"},"modified":"2013-04-06T10:16:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T17:16:34","slug":"in-my-prosperity-i-said-i-shall-never-be-moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2013\/04\/06\/in-my-prosperity-i-said-i-shall-never-be-moved\/","title":{"rendered":"In My Prosperity I Said I Shall Never Be Moved"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Charles Haddon Spurgeon<\/em><\/p>\n

From Psalm 30:6<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘Moab settled on his lees, he hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel.’ Give a man wealth; let his ships bring home continually rich freights; let the winds and waves appear to be his servants to bear his vessels across the bosom of the mighty deep; let his lands yield abundantly: let the weather be propitious to his crops; let uninterrupted success attend him; let him stand among men as a successful merchant; let him enjoy continued health; allow him with braced nerve and brilliant eye to march through the world, and live happily; give him the buoyant spirit; let him have the song perpetually on his lips; let his eye be ever sparkling with joy-and the natural consequence of such an easy state to any man, let him be the best Christian who ever breathed, will be presumption; even David said, ‘I shall never be moved;’ and we are not better than David, nor half so good.<\/p>\n

Brother, beware of the smooth places of the way; if you are treading them, or if the way be rough, thank God for it. If God should always rock us in the cradle of prosperity; if we were always dandled on the knees of fortune; if we had not some stain on the alabaster pillar; if there were not a few clouds in the sky; if we had not some bitter drops in the wine of this life, we should become intoxicated with pleasure, we should dream ‘we stand;’ and stand we should, but it would be upon a pinnacle; like the man asleep upon the mast, each moment we should be in jeopardy.
\nWe bless God, then, for our afflictions; we thank Him for our changes; we extol His name for losses of property; for we feel that had He not chastened us thus, we might have become too secure. Continued worldly prosperity is a fiery trial.<\/p>\n

‘Afflictions, though they seem severe,
\nIn mercy oft are sent.’<\/em><\/p>\n

3.10a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Charles Haddon Spurgeon From Psalm 30:6 ‘Moab settled on his lees, he hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel.’ Give a man wealth; let his ships bring home continually rich freights; let the winds and waves appear to be his servants to bear his vessels across the bosom of the mighty deep; let […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spurgeon-saturday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7902,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7901\/revisions\/7902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}