June 20 Morning Devotional | Sifted by the Lord | Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Morning, June 20 | “For behold, I am commanding, And I will shake the house of Israel among all nations As grain is shaken in a sieve, But not a kernel will fall to the ground .” —Amos 9:9 (NASB)

This Morning's Scripture Reading: Amos 9:8-10 (NASB)

Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom,
And I will destroy it from the face of the earth;
Nevertheless, I will not totally destroy the house of Jacob,”
Declares the Lord.
“For behold, I am commanding,
And I will shake the house of Israel among all nations
As grain is shaken in a sieve,
But not a kernel will fall to the ground.
All the sinners of My people will die by the sword,
Those who say, ‘The calamity will not overtake or confront us.’

Devotional Video Transcript:

Every sifting comes by divine command and permission. Satan must ask permission before he can lay a finger upon Job. Nay, more, in some sense our siftings are directly the work of heaven, for in the text, God says, “I will shake the house of Israel.” Satan, like a slave, may hold the sieve, hoping to destroy the grain; but the overruling hand of the Master is accomplishing the purity of the grain by the very process which the enemy intended to 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 surely use the fan that is in his hand and will divide the precious from the vile. All are not Israel that are of Israel; the heap on the barn floor is not clean provender, and hence the shaking process must be performed. In the sieve true weight alone has power. Husks and chaff being devoid of substance must fly before the wind, and only solid substance will remain.

Observe the complete safety of the Lord’s wheat; even the least grain has a promise of preservation. God himself sifts, and therefore it is stern and terrible work. He sifts them in all places, “among all nations”; he sifts them in the most effective manner, “as grain is shaken in a sieve”; and yet for all this, not the smallest, lightest, or most shriveled kernel, is permitted to fall to the ground.

Every individual believer is precious in the sight of the Lord, a shepherd would not lose one sheep, nor a jeweler one diamond, nor a mother one child, nor a man one limb of his body, nor will the Lord lose one of his redeemed people. However little we may be, if we are the Lord’s, we may rejoice that we are preserved in Christ Jesus.

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