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I received Your Only Comfort compliments of New Growth Press in exchange for my honest review.
Your Only Comfort: Devotions for Hope in Suffering edited by Geoffrey Chang is a lovely devotional featuring sermon compilations from the late Charles Spurgeon. The book includes 30 devotionals.
Each one begins with Scripture and includes paragraphs from some of Spurgeon’s sermons. Something that I greatly appreciate is that the text of his sermons is carefully preserved. I’ve read similar works where the language has been updated to modern English, and I didn’t care for them as much because I felt disconnected from the original texts. Spurgeon’s writings in Old English are lovely, and there’s something special about reading the original writings of saints past.
Your Only Comfort is helpful for readers who long for the comfort of Christ in hardship and trials. I wasn’t facing any particularly challenging trials while reading, but rather, the everyday challenges that accompany life in a broken world. Even then, I found Spurgeon’s words deeply comforting.
The only thing I wish was different about this book is that it included endorsements from females in addition to the male ones. The book’s dedication reads “To my brothers and sisters in the persecuted church. 1 Peter 5:10,” so I know that it’s for male and female readers. As a female, however, when I read Christian books that don’t include female endorsements, I get the feeling that the book isn’t meant to include me or appeal to me. I don’t believe that’s the case here, considering the dedication, so it would be nice to see endorsements by females, too.
I’m generally not a fan of devotionals, but Your Only Comfort has quickly and easily become one of my favorites. I’m pleased to give it my highest recommendation, and I eagerly anticipate reading the companion devotionals, A Wondrous Mystery and What Depth of Love.
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