Morning and Evening with Charles Spurgeon March 8 | Morning
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Mar 8, 2026 A morning devotional reading of Acts 14:22 frames trials as part of the Christian calling. The narrator explains how seasons of testing are ordained and timed by God. Biblical examples like Job and Abraham illustrate enduring faith amid affliction. Tribulation is portrayed as the cross’s mark, with comfort in Christ’s presence and promised recompense.
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Trials Are Predestined For God's People
- Trials are an ordained part of the Christian life, not accidental setbacks but predestinated experiences included in Christ's legacy.
- Frazer Blaxland insists God fixed the season, place, intensity, and effect of our afflictions like the ordained orbits of stars.
Expect And Prepare For Spiritual Tribulation
- Do not expect to escape troubles; expect to endure them as every predecessor of faith did and be prepared to persevere.
- Frazer Blaxland points to Job, Abraham, apostles, and martyrs as examples who faced affliction and remained faithful.
Biblical Examples Of Faith Through Affliction
- Abraham and Job serve as concrete examples of faith tested by severe trials that shaped them into fathers and models of faith.
- The speaker reviews patriarchs, prophets, apostles, and martyrs to show every vessel of mercy passed through the fire of affliction.