June 20 | Morning
6/20/20263 min
❖ This is the devotional for the morning of June 20.
❖ The Scripture for this devotion is Amos 9:9.
❖ This podcast comes from Crossway's new edition of 'Morning and Evening' written by Charles H. Spurgeon and revised by Alistair Begg. This podcast is narrated by Frazer Blaxland.
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[gentle music] June 20th, morning. For behold, I will command and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth. Amos chapter nine, verse nine. Every sifting comes by divine command and permission. Satan must ask permission before he can lay a finger upon Job. In actual fact, in some sense, our siftings are directly the work of heaven. For in the text, God says that he will shake the house of Israel. Satan, like a slave, may hold the sieve, hoping for the worst. But the overruling hand of the master is accomplishing his purpose by the very process that the enemy hopes will be destructive. Precious children of God, even though you are shaken, be comforted by the blessed fact that the Lord directs the whole process for his own glory and for your eternal profit. The Lord Jesus will graciously and yet firmly divide that which is precious from that which is of little account. All are not Israel that are of Israel. The grain on the barn floor is not clean and pure,