A Hope Infusion

I picked up my little devotional book, "Daily Help" by Charles Spurgeon today. I read two writings that gave me such an infusion of hope that I want to share them with you here. It is good to be reminded of present hope and future hope all within minutes of each other.
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"Why go I mourning?"-Psalm 42:9

"CANST thou answer this, believer?
Can't thou find any reason why thou art so
often mourning instead of rejoicing?
Why yield to gloomy anticipations?
Who told thee that the night would never end in day?
Who told thee that the winter of thy discontent
would proceed from frost to frost,
from snow and ice,
and hail, to deeper snow,
and yet more heavy tempest of despair?

Knowest thou not that day follows night,
that flood comes after ebb,
that spring and summer succeed to winter?

Hope thou then! for God fails thee not."
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"WHO can lay anything to the charge of God's Elect?"

Most blessed challenge!
How unanswerable it is!
Every sin of the elect was laid upon
the great Champion
of our salvation,
and by atonement carried away.

There is no sin in God's book against His people.

When the guilt of sin was taken away,
the punishment of sin was removed.
For the Christian
there is no stroke from God's angry hand-
nay, not so much as a single frown of justice.

The believer may be chastised by his Father,
but God the Judge has nothing to say to the Christian,
except "I have absolved thee: thou art acquitted."