We all experience tiring days and periods of loneliness in our lives. Many times we feel more like an outsider than an insider, identifying with the sojourner and the outcast. In lonelier times, I am helped by others who have walked similar roads. I am especially thankful for writers who express how I feel and can speak right to my soul.
Recently I sat down to “listen” to Mr. Spurgeon in Morning by Morning, and I found that he explained the reason for the sojourner’s life very well. So come fellow sojourner, sit with Mr. Spurgeon, and listen as he speaks.
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| Profile Portrait of a Woman Reading a Bible Holding a Fan by Williams Tolliver |
“Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers.” Psalm 39:12
“Yes, O Lord, with You, but I am not a stranger to You. Your grace has effectually removed all my natural alienation from you. Now I walk in fellowship with You through this sinful world as a pilgrim in a foreign country. You are a stranger in Your own world. Humankind forgets You, dishonors You, sets up new laws and alien customs, and doesn’t know You. Your dear Son was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him. Never was foreigner so strange a bird among the animals of any land as Your beloved Son among His mother’s family. Its no marvel, then, if I who live the life of Jesus should be unknown and stranger here below. Lord, I would not be a citizen where Jesus was an alien. His pierced hand has loosened the cords that once bound my soul to earth, and now I find myself a stranger in the land.
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| Road to Emmaus by Fritz von Uhde |
My speech seems like an outlandish tongue to these
Babylonians among whom I dwell - to them my manners are different and my actions are strange… But here is the sweetness of my lot - I am a stranger with You. You are my co-sufferer, my co-pilgrim. Oh, what joy to suffer in such blessed society! My heart burns within me on the way when you speak to me, and though I am a sojourner in a strange land, I am far more blessed than those who sit on thrones.”
~ Your Co-Sufferer, Co-Pilgrim, and Fellow Sojourner
