“Let the day perish wherein I was born…” – Job 3:3

“…why hast Thou forsaken Me?” – Matthew 27:46

Listen to Job, and we must not condemn Job, for we should not have been half so good as he, I daresay; but he does let his spirit utter itself sometimes in bitterness. He curses the day of his birth and so on; but the Lord Jesus does not do that. There is not a syllable about “cursed be the day in which I was born in Bethlehem, and in which I came amongst such a rebellious race as this”-no, not a word, not a word. And even the best of men when in sorrow have at least wished that things were not just so. David, when he had lost Absalom, wished that he had died, instead of Absalom. But Christ does not appear to want things altered. He does not say, “Lord, this is a mistake. Would God I had died by the hands of Herod when he sought my life, or had perished when they tried to throw Me down the hill of Capernaum.” No; nothing of the kind. There is grief, but there is no complaining; there is sorrow, but there is no rebellion. Now this is the point, beloved, I want to bring to you. If you should suffer extremely, and it should ever come to that terrible pinch that even God’s love and the enjoyment of it appears to be gone, put your finger to your lip and keep it there. “I was dumb with silence; I opened not My mouth, because Thou didst it.” Believe that He is a good God still. Know that assuredly He is working for thy good, even now, and let not a syllable escape thee by way of murmuring, or if it does, repent of it and recall it. Thou hast a right to speak to God, but not to murmur against Him, and if thou wouldst be like thy Lord, thou wouldst say just this, “Why hast Thou forsaken me?” But thou wilt say no more, and there wilt thou leave Him, and if’ there come no answer to thy question thou wilt be content to be without an answer.~ C.H. Spurgeon

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