The following was taken from a comment C. H. Spurgeon made about his fitness for the work. I think all of us have had these thoughts to trouble our minds. It is good, that when we do, we are in the company of the prince of preachers.

Morning Meditation 3/11/2015

A TALK WITH A FEW FRIENDS AT MENTONE

by C.H. Spurgeon

“Fear not: for I have redeemed thee.” —Isaiah 43:1

“I WAS lamenting this morning my unfitness for my work, and especially for the warfare to which I am called. A sense of heaviness came over me, but relief came very speedily, for which I thank the Lord. Indeed, I was greatly burdened, but the Lord succored me. The first verse read at the Sabbath morning service exactly met my case. It is in Isaiah 43:1: “But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and He that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not.” I said to myself, “I am what God created me, and

I am what He formed me, and therefore I must, after all, be the right man for the place wherein He has put me.” We may not blame our Creator, nor suspect that He has missed His mark in forming an instrument for His work. Thus new comfort comes to us. Not only do the operations of grace in the spiritual world yield us consolation, but we are even comforted by what the Lord has done in creation. We are told to cease from our fears; and we do so, since we perceive that it is the Lord that made us, and not we ourselves, and He will justify His own creating skill by accomplishing through us the purposes of His love. Pray, I beseech you, for me, the weakest of my Lord’s servants, that I may be equal to the overwhelming task imposed upon me.”

I trust that this great thought of Spurgeon will help and encourage you as it has me.

In Christ

Bro. White