“None of these things move me” (Acts xx. 24).
The best evidence of God’s presence is the devil’s growl. So wrote good
Mr. Spurgeon once in “The Sword and the Trowel,” and that little sentence
has helped many a tried and tired child Of God to stand fast and even
rejoice under the fiercest attacks of the foe.
We read in the book of Samuel that the moment that David was crowned at
Hebron, “All the Philistines came up to seek David.” And the moment we get
anything from the Lord worth contending for, then the devil comes to seek
us.
When the enemy meets us at the threshold of any great work for God let us
accept it as “a token of salvation,” and claim double blessing, victory
and power. Power is developed by resistance. The cannon carries twice as
far because the exploding power has to find its way through resistance.
The way electricity is produced in the power-house yonder is by the sharp
friction of the revolving wheels. And so we shall find some day that even
Satan has been one of God’s agencies of blessing.