2/27 Spurgeon Today

“Thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the Most High,
thy habitation.” — Psalm 91:9

The Israelites in the wilderness were continually exposed to change.
Whenever the pillar stayed its motion, the tents were pitched; but
tomorrow, ere the morning sun had risen, the trumpet sounded, the ark
was in motion, and the fiery, cloudy pillar was leading the way through the
narrow defiles of the mountain, up the hillside, or along the arid waste of
the wilderness. They had scarcely time to rest a little before they heard the
sound of “Away! this is not your rest; you must still be onward
journeying towards Canaan!” They were never long in one place. Even
wells and palm trees could not detain them. Yet they had an abiding home
in their God, His cloudy pillar was their roof-tree, and its flame by night
their household fire. They must go onward from place to place, continually
changing, never having time to settle, and to say, “Now we are secure; in
this place we shall dwell.” “Yet,” says Moses, “though we are always
changing, Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place throughout all
generations.” The Christian knows no change with regard to God. He may
be rich to-day and poor to-morrow; he may be sickly to-day and well
to-morrow; he may be in happiness to-day, to-morrow he may be
distressed — but there is no change with regard to his relationship to God.
If He loved me yesterday, He loves me to-day. My unmoving mansion of
rest is my blessed Lord. Let prospects be blighted; let hopes be blasted; let
joy be withered; let mildews destroy everything; I have lost nothing of
what I have in God. He is “my strong habitation whereunto I can
continually resort.” I am a pilgrim in the world, but at home in my God. In
the earth I wander, but in God I dwell in a quiet habitation.