I think that he brought that truth before her mind just then because she might hear of it otherwise when she was in a worse condition for the receiving of it. Now, this woman was desperately set on getting a blessing from Christ. Her whole heart was awake; her spirit was on fire; her whole nature was eager for the blessing. If she could stand repression at any time in her life, it was just then. "How do you know?" say you. I know it by a kind of instinct. The story opens for me a window into the woman's soul. I am persuaded that the Master would not have applied anything that looked like a discouraging truth to her unless he had perceived that she was quite able to bear it, and perhaps better able to bear it then than upon some future day.
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92) was England's best-known preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1854, just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 20, became pastor of London's famed New Park Street Church (formerly pastored by the...
