# “The grace of patience” by Charles Spurgeon

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- Published: 2013-04-09T18:00:25-05:00
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“Be satisfied as you are, and do not wish to choose another man’s cross. Christ 
says, ‘Take up the cross, and follow me. He does not say, ‘Desire to have another
man’s cross.’ Observe, too, that Christ does not say, ‘_Murmur at your cross_.’ 
That is the very reverse of taking it up.

As long as a man is alive, and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.
Be he where he may,—be he placed in the most abject position conceivable,—the man
is better off than he deserves to be. Let not a single murmur, then, ever escape
our lips.

Blessed is the grace of patience, but hard is it to be acquired. May the Lord, of
His infinite mercy, teach us to bear all His holy will, and bear it cheerfully, 
and so to take up our cross for Jesus’ sake!”

–Charles H. Spurgeon, “A Procession of Cross-Bearers,” _The Metropolitan Tabernacle
Pulpit Sermons, Vol. LI_ (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1905), 365. Spurgeon preached
this sermon on Mark 10:21 on May 2, 1875 at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London.

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