{"id":3565,"date":"2008-10-03T17:56:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T22:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/ch-spurgeon\/psalms-1205"},"modified":"2008-10-03T17:56:34","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T22:56:34","slug":"psalms-1205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2008\/10\/03\/psalms-1205\/","title":{"rendered":"Psalms 120:5"},"content":{"rendered":"
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""Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the
       tents of Kedar."" 
              — Psalms 120:5 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As a Christian you have to live in the midst of an ungodly world, and
it is of little use for you to cry ""Woe is me."" Jesus did not pray that
you should be taken out of the world, and what he did not pray for, you
need not desire. Better far in the Lord’s strength to meet the
difficulty, and glorify him in it. The enemy is ever on the watch to
detect inconsistency in your conduct; be therefore very holy. Remember
that the eyes of all are upon you, and that more is expected from you
than from other men. Strive to give no occasion for blame. Let your
goodness be the only fault they can discover in you. Like Daniel,
compel them to say of you, ""We shall not find any occasion against this
Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.""
Seek to be useful as well as consistent. Perhaps you think, ""If I were
in a more favourable position I might serve the Lord’s cause, but I
cannot do any good where I am""; but the worse the people are among whom
you live, the more need have they of your exertions; if they be
crooked, the more necessity that you should set them straight; and if
they be perverse, the more need have you to turn their proud hearts to
the truth. Where should the physician be but where there are many sick?
Where is honour to be won by the soldier but in the hottest fire of the
battle? And when weary of the strife and sin that meets you on every
hand, consider that all the saints have endured the same trial. They
were not carried on beds of down to heaven, and you must not expect to
travel more easily than they. They had to hazard their lives unto the
death in the high places of the field, and you will not be crowned till
you also have endured hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
Therefore, ""stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.""<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

""Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the        tents of Kedar.""                — Psalms 120:5 As a Christian you have to live in the midst of an ungodly world, and it is of little use for you to cry ""Woe is me."" Jesus did not pray that you should…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}