# “The cold mountains of trial” by Charles H. Spurgeon

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- Published: 2009-01-08T14:03:28-06:00
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“You that are beginners, I do not wish to frighten you; but on the way to Heaven
there are ‘Cut-throat Lanes’ where, when the enemy finds your spirits down, he pounces
with temptation, and before you know it you may be wounded. There are spots in the
valley where every bush conceals an adversary, and temptations spring out of the
ground like fiery serpents, and where the soul is among lions.

If you have not yet come to that part of your pilgrimage I am glad of it, and I 
hope that you may be spared it in answer to the prayer—’Lead us not into temptation.’
But if you are called to walk through this dangerous ravine what will you do? Say
this to yourself—’Yea, though I walk through that dangerous pass of which I have
heard, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort
me.’

You who are placed in positions of great trial and temptation need not wish for 
an easier pathway, for it may be that you are safer now, being on your guard, than
those who are not fiercely tried, and are in peril from sloth and spiritual indifference.
The cold mountains of trial can be safer than the sultry plains of pleasure.”

–Charles H. Spurgeon, “The Valley of the Shadow of Death,” _The Journal of Biblical
Counseling_, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2000, p. 31.

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