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Present
Words of Love
by C. H. Spurgeon
April 22
Am I bowed down? Then let me urge this word of
grace before the LORD. It is His way, His custom, His promise, His delight, to raise
up them that are bowed down. Is it a sense of sin and a consequent depression of
spirit which distresses me? Then the work of Jesus is, in this case, made and provided
to raise me up into rest. O LORD, raise me, for Thy mercy's sake!
Is it a sad bereavement or a great fall in circumstances? Here again the Comforter
has undertaken to console. What a mercy for us that one Person of the sacred Trinity
should become the Comforter! This work will be well done since such a glorious One
has made it His peculiar care.
Some are so bowed down that only Jesus can loose them from their infirmity, but He
can, and He will, do it. He can raise us up to health, to hope, to happiness. He
has often done so under former trials, and He is the same Savior and will repeat
His deeds of lovingkindness. We who are today bowed down and sorrowful shalt yet
be set on high, and those who now mock at us shall be greatly ashamed. What an honor
to be raised up by the LORD! It is worthwhile to be bowed down that we may experience
His upraising power.