Cry to God as a Child

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

“But it is good for me to draw near to God; I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all Your works.” – Psalm 75:28

Depend upon it, the best way to get away from trouble, or to get great help under it, is to run close in to God. In one of Quarles’s poems he has the picture of a man striking another with a great nail. Now the further off the other is, the heavier it strikes him. So the man whom God is smiting runs close in, and he cannot be hurt at all. O my God, my God, when away from Thee affliction stuns me, but I will come in close with Thee, and then even my affliction I will take to be a cause of glory, and glory in tribulations also, so that Thy blast shall not sorely wound my spirit.

Our Lord, when He does cry, cries with the inquiring voice of a child… Oh! learn it well. Do practice it when you are in trouble. If you are in such a condition at this time, practice it now, and in the pew say, “Show me wherefore Thou contendest with me. Search me and try me, and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” ~ C.H. Spurgeon

https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/spurgeon_charles/sermons/3507.cfm

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