You can’t help but notice, especially during the holiday season, just how wrapped up we are in the things of this world, often to the neglect of more eternal concerns. As Charles Spurgeon considers the New Year he also considers a New World … on Faith’s Checkbook.
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Faith’s Checkbook
Daily Devotional Reading by Charles Spurgeon
December 31
No Stranger in Heaven
23 I am continually with you;
you hold my right hand.
24 You guide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will receive me to glory.
25 Whom have I in heaven but you?
And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. Psalm 73:23 – 25 ESV
From day to day and from year to year my faith believes in the wisdom and love of God, and I know that I shall not believe in vain. No good word of His has ever failed, and I am sure that none will ever fall to the ground.
I put myself into His hand for guidance. I do not know the way that I should choose: the Lord will choose my inheritance for me. I need counsel and advice; because my duties are intricate, and my condition is involved. I seek the counsel of the infallible God – in preference to my own judgment or the advice of friends.
Soon the end will come: a few more years and I must depart out of this world unto the Father. My Lord will be near my bed. He will meet me at heaven’s gate: He will welcome me to the glory-land. I will not be a stranger in heaven: my own God and Father will receive me to its endless bliss.
Glory be to Him who
Will guide me here,
And receive me hereafter. Amen. †
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