“Fear not; I will help thee.” – Isaiah 41:13

There is a cloud; why do you fear it? It will be gone directly; not a drop of rain may fall out of it. You are afraid of the wind; why fear it? It may never come…Wait till the trouble comes; else I shall have to tell you the story I have often repeated of the mother whose child would cry. She told it not to cry, but it would cry. “Well,” she said, “if you will cry, I will give you something to cry for.” If you get fearing about nothing, the probability is that you will get something really to fear, for God does not love His people to be fools.

He that observeth the wind shall not sow… – Ecclesiastes 11:4

There are some who fall into the sin of penuriousness. He that observeth the clouds and the winds thinks, “That is not a good object to help,” and that he will do harm if he gives here, or if he gives there. It amounts to this, poor miser, you want to save your money! …They have always a reason for not giving to anything that is proposed to them, or to any poor person who asks their help.

The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets. – Proverbs 26:13

If we do not want to serve God, it is wonderful how many reasons we can find. According to Solomon, the sluggard said there was a lion in the streets. “There is a lion in the way,” said he, ” a lion is in the streets.” What a lie it was, for lions are as much afraid of streets as men are of deserts! …Oh, yes, yes, yes, we are always making these excuses about winds and clouds, and there is nothing in either of them. If you have been guilty of any of (these sins), repent of your wrong-doing, and do not repeat it. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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