“Well,” says one, “as far as temporal supplies are concerned, I can leave them entirely in the hands of God; but my anxieties arise from quite another form of trouble. There is a Christian brother who is at enmity against me, and he has been spreading an ill report about me, although I have earnestly sought to walk before God in holy fear, and have watched every step that I have taken, and I feel so worried that I do not know what to do.” Well, dear friend, there is one rule which you will generally find to be applicable in such a case as yours. When you do not know what to do, do not do anything at all; and, usually, if the trouble has arisen through false reports about your own character, “the least said, the soonest mended.” I believe that, if there is anything you want to have well done, you had better do it yourself; but there is one exception to that rule, and that is the matter of defending yourself. No defense is needed for a good man who can say, “By the grace of God I am what I am.” You may leave that matter of your own character, therefore; and as to the good brother not getting on with you, if you have done anything that has grieved him, confess the wrong. “Well, perhaps, if I did, he might not meet me in the same spirit.” You have nothing to do with that, dear friend; that is his business, and God’s. You go and do the right thing, and then be no longer anxious about it, but leave the result with God. ~ C.H. Spurgeon, from his sermon, Anxiety, Ambition, Indecision
“Well,” says one, “as far as temporal supplies are concerned, I can leave them entirely in the hands of God; but my anxieties arise from quite another form of trouble. There is a Christian brother who is at enmity against me, and he has been spreading an ill report about me, although I have earnestly sought to walk before God in holy fear, and have watched every step that I have taken, and I feel so worried that I do not know what to do.” Well, dear friend, there is one rule which you will generally find to be applicable in such a case as yours. When you do not know what to do, do not do anything at all; and, usually, if the trouble has arisen through false reports about your own character, “the least said, the soonest mended.” I believe that, if there is anything you want to have well done, you had better do it yourself; but there is one exception to that rule, and that is the matter of defending yourself. No defense is needed for a good man who can say, “By the grace of God I am what I am.” You may leave that matter of your own character, therefore; and as to the good brother not getting on with you, if you have done anything that has grieved him, confess the wrong. “Well, perhaps, if I did, he might not meet me in the same spirit.” You have nothing to do with that, dear friend; that is his business, and God’s. You go and do the right thing, and then be no longer anxious about it, but leave the result with God. ~ C.H. Spurgeon, from his sermon, Anxiety, Ambition, Indecision
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