Spurgeon
Beloved of All
The house you occupy is not your own; it is held under the great Landlord of all, and He marks every injustice done beneath His roof. That unscrupulous men should seek to cover their tracks with documents that mock true law is no surprise in a fallen world, but remember, the Lord sees. He keeps the record straight. Set your house in order, not merely your papers, but your heart. The rent God asks is not coin, but praise, obedience, and trust. Are you in arrears there? Shall a living man complain when his own account with heaven runs deep in debt? Yet the veil is rent; mercy sits enthroned where judgment once barred the way. If you have cried to Jesus, justice itself is satisfied, God can be just, and yet the justifier of the one who believes.
Cut off communication if it preserves peace, and pursue every lawful means to recoup what has been overcharged. That is not vengeance; it is a proper appeal to the courts God ordains for order. But take care that your spirit does not grow poisoned. He who travels on the King’s highway, walking in uprightness and childlike dependence, is under angelic protection. The Almighty charges His messengers to keep you in all your ways, so long as those ways are His. Trust Him for the outcome. The sharpest landlord or the most twisted document cannot finally rob you of what the Lord has in store. Justice may limp at times on this earth, but it never limps before the throne. The cloud of divine justice was once charged with a fiery hail meant for you, but it fell, not on you, into the Savior’s heart. If God so satisfied His own justice in Christ, will He not attend to the smaller wrongs that canker this life? Pour out your complaint before Him, but let your heart be lifted in praise as well, for the true house is the mansion Christ prepares, where no arrears remain, and no unscrupulous hand can touch.
Cut off communication if it preserves peace, and pursue every lawful means to recoup what has been overcharged. That is not vengeance; it is a proper appeal to the courts God ordains for order. But take care that your spirit does not grow poisoned. He who travels on the King’s highway, walking in uprightness and childlike dependence, is under angelic protection. The Almighty charges His messengers to keep you in all your ways, so long as those ways are His. Trust Him for the outcome. The sharpest landlord or the most twisted document cannot finally rob you of what the Lord has in store. Justice may limp at times on this earth, but it never limps before the throne. The cloud of divine justice was once charged with a fiery hail meant for you, but it fell, not on you, into the Savior’s heart. If God so satisfied His own justice in Christ, will He not attend to the smaller wrongs that canker this life? Pour out your complaint before Him, but let your heart be lifted in praise as well, for the true house is the mansion Christ prepares, where no arrears remain, and no unscrupulous hand can touch.
