The Treasure Of David on Psalm 10
If we were carried in the arms of God over every stream, where would be the trial, and where the experience, which trouble is meant to teach us? (Romans5:3-4 "Suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope."
Sermons from the Book of Job
Vol. 1
https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/spurgeon/SermonFrom%20Job1.pdf
Vol. 2
https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/spurgeon/SermonFromJob2.pdf
Vol. 3
https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/spurgeon/SermonfromJob3.pdf
“Maroth – or The Disappointed”
https://www.spurgeongems.org/sermon/chs3184.pdf
When we are disappointed, whether it is in little matters or great ones, let us bear the disappointment bravely, and lay the whole case before the Lord in prayer. Let us ask Him wherefore He contends with us, and if there be any reason for it which we can discover in ourselves, let us endeavor to remove it, or if we can find no cause, let us believe that God acts in wisdom and in love, and let us cheerfully submit to whatever He appoints for us.
We would bear our disappointments with all the greater equanimity if we would always remember that disappointments are often exceedingly instructive. Our disappointments teach us our need of greater wisdom than our own, and also teach us the folly of trusting to our own understanding.
Let our past disappointments warn us to speak with bated breath about tomorrow and the more distant future, and not to say without any qualification what we will do as if all time were at our disposal, and we were the disposers of all events. Even if we do not always use the words, “If the Lord will. let the spirit of them always be in our mind, so that we do not think and speak
unconditionally concerning the unknown future.
Let our disappointments also teach us to submit absolutely and unquestioningly to the Lord’s will.
If our disappointments would only make us hold with a loose hand all we have—house, and lands, and children, and health, and reputation, and everything—so that, if God should take them all away, we should still continue to bless His name because we never reckoned that they were ours to keep, but were only lent to us during our Lord’s good will and pleasure—if our disappointments only brought us to such a condition as that, they would be, indeed, most soul enriching things.