# “The discerning hand of God” by Charles Spurgeon

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- Published: 2015-06-11T07:00:38-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“So far as personal sorrows are concerned, it would be a very sharp and trying experience
to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter
cup was never filled by His hand, that my trials were never measured out by Him,
nor sent to me by His arrangement of their weight and quantity.

Oh, that were bitterness indeed! But, on the contrary, the prophet here sees the
hand of God in all his trials, and I pray that you and I may do the same.

May we see that our heavenly Father fills the cup with loving tenderness, and holds
it out, and says, ‘Drink, my child; bitter as it is, it is a love-potion which is
meant to do thee permanent good.’

The discerning of the hand of God is a sweet lesson in the school of experience.”

–Charles H. Spurgeon, [“Woe and Weal”](http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols55-57/chs3239.pdf)
in _[The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Metropolitan+Tabernacle+Pulpit+Volume+57&i=stripbooks&tag=toletaupanre-20)_(
vol. 57; London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1911), 99–100.

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## Comments

### By: M Charles

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2015/06/11/the-discerning-hand-of-god-by-charles-spurgeon/comment-page-1/#comment-8754
- Published: 2015-06-11T07:10:02-05:00

Thanks for sharing.. God bless