5.19.21 Wonderful Wednesdays with Real Southern Woman
Channel: REAL SOUTHERN WOMAN, COLLARD VALLEY COOK
Date: 2021-05-19

Charles Haddon Spurgeon 
May 19th — Morning Reading 

"I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth." — Ecclesiastes 10:7 

Status Seekers frequently take possession of the highest places, while the truly great fade in lack of fame. This is a riddle in fate whose solution will one day gladden the hearts of the upright; but it is so common a fact, that none of us should murmur if it should fall to our own lot.  

When our Lord was upon earth, although He is the Prince of the kings of the earth, yet He walked the footpath of weariness and service as the Servant of servants: what wonder is it if His followers, who are princes of the blood, should also be looked down upon as inferior and contemptible persons?  

The world is upside down, and therefore, the first are last and the last first. See how the sons of Satan rule so enthusiastically in the earth! What a high horse they ride! How they lift up their horn on high! 

 Haman is in the court, while Mordecai sits in the gate; David wanders on the mountains, while Saul reigns in state; Elijah is complaining in the cave while Jezebel is boasting in the palace; yet who would wish to take the places of the proud rebels? and who, on the other hand, might not envy the despised saints? When the wheel turns, those who are lowest rise, and the highest sink. Patience, then, believer, eternity will right the wrongs of time. 

Let us not fall into the error of letting our passions and carnal appetites ride in triumph, while our Holy Spirits powers walk in the dust. Grace must reign as a prince and make the members of the body instruments of righteousness.  

The Holy Spirit loves order, and He therefore sets our powers and faculties in due rank and place, giving the highest room to those spiritual faculties which link us with the great King; let us not disturb the divine arrangement, but ask for grace that we may keep under our body and bring it into subjection.  

We were not new created to allow our passions to rule over us, but that we, as kings, may reign in Christ Jesus over the triple kingdom of spirit, soul, and body, to the glory of God the Father. 
Edited for easy reading by Tammy Nichols 5.19.21