In my quiet time this morning, I read something in Spurgeon's "Morning and Evening Devotions" that touched my heart, spoke to me, and encouraged my soul. Below are some excerpts:
"David passed Kidron when flying with his mourning company from his traitor son. The man after God's own heart was not exempt from trouble, nay, his life was full of it. He was both the Lord's anointed and the Lord's afflicted. Why then should we expect to escape? At sorrow's gates, the noblest of our race have waited with ashes on their heads, wherefore then should we complain as though some strange thing had happened unto us?...It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points like as we are. What is our Kidron this morning? Is it a faithless friend, a sad bereavement, a slanderous reproach, a dark foreboding? The King has passed over all of these. Is it a bodily pain, poverty, persecution, or contempt? Over each of these Kidrons the King has gone before us...We shall yet with joy draw water out of the wells of salvation, though now for a season we have to pass by the streams of sin and sorrow. Courage, soldiers of the Cross, the King himself triumphed after going over Kidron, and so shall you."
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