"For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of
Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the
least grain fall upon the earth." Amos 9:9
“The sifting process is going on still. Wherever we go, we
are still being winnowed and sifted. In all countries God's people are being
tried "like as corn is sifted in a sieve." Sometimes the devil holds
the sieve and tosses us up and down at a great rate, with the earnest desire to
get rid of us forever.
Unbelief is not slow to agitate our heart and mind with its
restless fears. The world lends a willing hand at the same process and shakes
us to the right and to the left with great vigor. Worst of all, the church, so
largely apostate as it is, comes in to give a more furious force to the sifting
process. Well, well! Let it go on. Thus is the chaff severed from the wheat.
Thus is the wheat delivered from dust and chaff.
And how great is the mercy which comes to us in the text,
"Yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth"! All shall be
preserved that is good, true, gracious. Not one of the least of believers lose
anything worth calling a loss. We shall be so kept in the sifting that it shall
be a real gain to us through Christ Jesus.”
-C.H. Spurgeon
British Prince of Preachers
1834-1892 From “The Check Book of
Faith"
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