Two of CH Spurgeon's written works are Morning & Evening and Faith's Check Book. These two are meant for daily reading. We have included the Faith's Check Book as an afternoon article on top of the two articles from Morning & Evening. On this page, the article that is displayed will be according to the time that is viewed.
The Evening runs from 6pm to 2:59am of the next day in extended evening. The Morning article will change-over from 3am to 10:59am and Faith's Check Book will have its time slot from 11am to 5:59pm.
Spurgeon's Faith Checkbook
For the mid-day devotion of September 23rd
Deliverance from Dust and Chaff
For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all sections, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. (Amos 9:9)
he sifting process is going on still. Wherever we go, we are still being
winnowed and sifted. In all countries God's people are being tried "like as corn
is sifted in a sieve." Sometimes the devil holds the sieve and tosses us up and
down at a great rate, with the earnest desire to get rid of us forever. Unbelief
is not slow to agitate our heart and mind with its restless fears. The world
lends a willing hand at the same process and shakes us to the right and to the
left with great vigor. Worst of all, the church, so largely apostate as it is,
comes in to give a more furious force to the sifting process.
Well, well! Let it go on. Thus is the chaff severed from the wheat. Thus is the wheat delivered from dust and chaff. And how great is the mercy which comes to us in the text, "Yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth"! All shall be preserved that is good, true, gracious. Not one of the least of believers lose anything worth calling a loss. We shall be so kept in the sifting that it shall be a real gain to us through Christ Jesus.
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