DAILY READINGS by Charles Spurgeon
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MORNING: May 4 One great besetting sin of ancient Israel was idolatry, and the spiritual Israel are
vexed with a tendency to the same folly. Remphan's star shines no longer, and the women
weep no more for Tammuz, but Mammon still intrudes his golden calf, and the shrines of
pride are not forsaken. Self in various forms struggles to subdue the chosen ones under
its dominion, and the flesh sets up its altars wherever it can find space for them.
Favourite children are often the cause of much sin in believers; the Lord is grieved when
he sees us doting upon them above measure; they will live to be as great a curse to us as
Absalom was to David, or they will be taken from us to leave our homes desolate. If
Christians desire to grow thorns to stuff their sleepless pillows, let them dote on their
dear ones.
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From Charles H. Spurgeon's Morning and Evening.
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