And He shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD… – Micah 5:4

It is said “He shall stand and feed.” The great Head of the Church is actively engaged in providing for His people. He does not sit down upon the throne in an empty state or hold a scepter without wielding it in government. No, He stands and feeds. The expression “feed,” in the original is like an analogous one in the Greek, which means to shepherdize, to do everything expected of a shepherd: to guide, to watch, to preserve, to tend, as well as to feed. Our Lord Jesus Christ, the great Head of the Church, is always actively engaged for the Church’s good. Through Him the Spirit of God constantly descends upon the members of the Church; by Him ministers are given in due season, and all Church-officers in their proper place. When He ascended up on high He received gifts for men; “And He gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.” Our Lord does not close His eyes to the state of His Church. Beloved, He is not a listless spectator of our wants. He is this day standing and feeding His people. They are scattered, I know, wide as the poles asunder, but our mighty Shepherd can see every sheep and lamb of His flock, and He gives them all their portion of meat in due season. He it is that like a mighty Breaker, goes forth at the head of His flock, and they follow where He clears the way, “He shall stand and feed.” Oh! blessed carefulness and divine activity of our gracious King! ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time…and in the world to come eternal life. – Mark 10:30

To speak against preaching the future as though it would make people neglect the present is absurd. It is as though somebody should say, “There, take away the moon, and blot out the sun. What is the use of them-they are not in this world?” Precisely so but take away the moon and you have removed the tides, and the sea becomes a stagnant, putrid pool. Then take away the sun, and light, and heat, and life; everything is gone. What the sun and moon are to this natural world, the hope of the future is to the Christian in this world. It is his light; he looks upon all things in that light and sees them truly. It is his heat; it gives him zeal and energy. It is his very life: his Christianity, his virtue would expire if it were not for the hope of the world to come. Do you believe, my brethren, that apostles and martyrs would ever have sacrificed their lives for truth’s sake if they had not looked for a hereafter? In the heat of excitement, the soldier may die for honor, but to die in tortures and mockeries in cold blood needs a hope beyond the grave. Would yon poor man go toiling on year after year, refusing to sacrifice his conscience for gain; would yon poor needle-girl refuse to become the slave of lust if she did not see something brighter than earth can picture to her as the reward of sin? O my brethren, the most practical thing in all the world is the hope of the world to come, for it is just this which keeps us from being miserable; and to keep a man from being miserable, let me say, is to do a great thing for him…The man who has a hope of the next world goes about his work strong, for “the joy of the Lord is our strength.” Through the Spirit of God, the hope of another world is the most potent force for the product of virtue; it is a fountain of joy; it is the very channel of usefulness. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ. – Colossians 3:24

Think of a Christian! He is a king, and shall the king be the most melancholy of men? He is a priest unto God, and shall he offer no sweet incense of hallowed joy and grateful thanksgiving? We are fit companions for angels: He hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light; and shall we have no days of heaven upon earth? …Heritors of joy for ever, have we no foretastes of our portion? …The Christian knows that his sins are forgiven; there is not against the believer a single sin recorded in God’s book. “I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins.” More than that, the believer is accounted by God as if he had perfectly kept the law, for the righteousness of Christ is imputed to him, and he stands clothed in that fair white linen which is the righteousness of the saints. and shall the man whom God accepts be wretched? Shall the pardoned offender be less happy than the man upon whom the wrath of God abideth? Can you conceive such a thing? Moreover, my brethren, we are made temples of the Holy Ghost, and is the Holy Ghost’s temple to be a dark, dolorous place, a place of shrieks, and moans, and cries, like the Druidic groves of old? …Oh! if ye knew the Christian’s privilege, if ye understood that the secret of the Lord is laid open to him, that the wounds of Christ are his shelter, that the flesh and blood of Christ are his food, that Christ Himself is his sweet companion and his abiding friend… “Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord?” ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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