The following paragraph is a few years old:
It was the end of the cruise....this in the early 1980s....on the west side of Cuba headed home.....and there was a storm such that my wife and I bounced from wall to wall on the way back to our cabin as the cruise ships were not as big as they are today. What to do now....so early in the evening? I opened the drawer on the bedside table.....and lo and behold there was a Gideon Bible there. God bless the Gideons! So I did what any brand spanking new believer might do....I opened it to wherever it opened....and put my finger on any old verse....to see what God had to say to me.....the Bible opened to Psalm 93.....and with objects sliding off the table.....this is what I read.....
Charles Spurgeon's battle in defense of the gospel most probably contributed to an early death at age 57. He wrote these words below in summary while the battle was still hot and heavy. They were first posted in 2021....and I use this as a Lord's Day Post as it was used back then. May God even tomorrow open our eyes....and cause us to see that we as a church have wandered off of the straight path:
"We believe in prayer....LET US PRAY LIKE ELIJAHS....May the Lord himself direct his people! Meanwhile, to redouble our prayers, and to seek a revival in all our churches, cannot possibly be a mistake. Prayer, mighty prayer, can do wonders. This is the work of the present hour. Pray without ceasing, and preach the faithful Word in clearer terms than ever before. Such a course of conduct may seem to some to be a sort of standing still and doing nothing, but in very truth it is bringing God into the battle; and when HE comes to avenge the quarrel of his covenant, he will make short work of it. 'Arise, O Lord, plead thine own cause!" (PS 74:22)
We in America are where Spurgeon was at the time of this writing....where the battle is essentially lost....as our supply lines are cut....(Christian bookstores are all but gone....as are Billy Graham telecasts....and our only recruitment comes more from our waving the flag....a recruitment that does not save....than preaching the cross)....and our only alternative is to rely on prayer....but Oh....do not consider this a plan B....for this is where we should have made our base camp from the very beginning. God did answer Spurgeon's pleading to "Arise!"....only not in the way that the great preacher had hoped in his limited vision....and our prayers will be answered....but also in a way that we might not expect.
