From Memorial Day 2024, and Charles Spurgeon on the worker's day of rest.

Who are you to judge someone else’s servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand… (Romans 14:4)

Every man's way is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the hearts.(Proverbs 21:2)

A day past the soldier's holiday, or the soldier's day of remembrance, we come to our work with tools in hand, and bread in our basket, as Emerson or Thoreau said.

I was thinking of something Charles Haddon Spurgeon said about these holidays, and famously, Boxing Day, in response to talk of the holiday being silly and pointless.  He said something to the effect that he did not begrudge the workers of the nation a day of rest, and likewise, the citizen soldier of the free world, contesting for peace by means of threat of violence, getting their own day of gratitude and remembrance.

We remember and we say "rest easy, good soldier"--soldiering being that most difficult of employments, undertaken by anyone able-bodied, for the sake of the most important of causes: those so often fresh-faced young adults sent into the meat-grinder, charnal churn and moral uncertainty of warfare.

 

Spurgeon on the safety of the believer.

Observe the complete safety of the Lord's wheat; even the least grain has a promise of preservation. God himself sifts, and therefore it is stern and terrible work; he sifts them in all places, "among all nations"; he sifts them in the most effectual manner, "like as corn is sifted in a sieve"; and yet for all this, not the smallest, lightest, or most shrivelled grain, is permitted to fall to the ground. Every individual believer is precious in the sight of the Lord, a shepherd would not lose one sheep, nor a jeweller one diamond, nor a mother one child, nor a man one limb of his body, nor will the Lord lose one of his redeemed people. However little we may be, if we are the Lord's, we may rejoice that we are preserved in Christ Jesus.

-Charles Spurgeon 

There is a verse that says basically, "God has so clothed the leaves of the field; how much better then he deals with his believer..."

Spurgeon on Noah.

Floods did but lift him heavenward, and winds did but waft him on his way. Outside of the ark all was ruin, but inside all was rest and peace. 

-Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon on the assurance of salvation.

The everlasting song is almost on thy lip. The portals of heaven stand open for thee. Think not that thou canst fail of entering into rest. If he hath called thee, nothing can divide thee from his love. Distress cannot sever the bond; the fire of persecution cannot burn the link; the hammer of hell cannot break the chain. Thou art secure; that voice which called thee at first, shall call thee yet again from earth to heaven, from death's dark gloom to immortality's unuttered splendours.  

-Charles H Spurgeon

Spurgeon on casting cares to the Lord.

My case is urgent, and I do not see how I am to be delivered; but this is no business of mine. He who makes the promise will find ways and means of keeping it. It is mine to obey His commands; it is not mine to direct His counsels. I am His servant, not His solicitor. I call upon Him, and He will deliver.

-Charles Spurgeon