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Spurgeon's Morning & Evening Devotions
Morning, June 21
"Brethren, pray for us." - 1 Thessalonians 5:25
This one morning in the year we reserved to refresh the reader's memory upon
the subject of prayer for ministers, and we do most earnestly implore every
Christian household to grant the fervent request of the text first uttered by
an apostle and now repeated by us. Brethren, our work is solemnly momentous,
involving weal or woe to thousands; we treat with souls for God on eternal
business, and our word is either a savour of life unto life, or of death unto
death. A very heavy responsibility rests upon us,
and it will be no small mercy if at the last we be found clear of the blood of
all men.
As officers in Christ's army, we are the especial mark of the enmity of men and
devils; they watch for our halting, and labour to take us by the heels. Our
sacred calling involves us in temptations from which you are exempt, above all
it too often draws us away from our personal enjoyment of truth into a
ministerial and official consideration of it. We meet with many knotty cases,
and our wits are at a non plus; we observe very sad backslidings, and our
hearts are wounded; we see millions perishing, and our spirits sink.
We wish to profit you by our preaching; we desire to be blest to your children;
we long to be useful both to saints and sinners; therefore, dear friends,
intercede for us with our God. Miserable men are we if we miss the aid of your
prayers, but happy are we if we live in your supplications. You do not look to
us but to our Master for spiritual blessings, and yet how many times has He
given those blessings through His ministers; ask then, again and again, that we
may be the earthen vessels into which the Lord may put the treasure of the
gospel. We, the whole company of missionaries, ministers, city missionaries,
and students, do in the name of Jesus beseech you
"BRETHREN, PRAY FOR US."
Evening, June 21
"When I passed by thee, I said unto thee, Live." - Ezekiel 16:6
Saved one, consider gratefully this mandate of mercy. Note that this fiat of
God is majestic. In our text, we perceive a sinner with nothing in him but sin,
expecting nothing but wrath; but the eternal Lord passes by in his glory; he
looks, he pauses, and he
pronounces the solitary but royal word, "Live."
There speaks a God. Who but he could venture thus to deal with life and
dispense it with a single syllable? Again, this fiat is manifold. When he saith
"Live," it includes many things.
Here is judicial life. The sinner is ready to be condemned, but the mighty One
saith, "Live," and he rises pardoned and absolved. It is spiritual life.
We knew not Jesus-our eyes could not see Christ, our ears could not hear his
voice-Jehovah said "Live," and we were quickened who were dead in trespasses
and sins. Moreover, it includes glory-life, which is the perfection of
spiritual life. "I said unto thee, Live:" and that word rolls on through all
the years of time till death comes, and in the midst of the shadows of death,
the Lord's voice is still heard, "Live!" In the morning of the
resurrection it is that self-same voice which is echoed by the arch-angel,
"Live," and as holy spirits rise to heaven to be blest for ever in the glory of
their God, it is in the power of
this same word, "Live."
Note again, that it is an irresistible mandate. Saul of Tarsus is on the road
to Damascus to arrest the saints of the living God. A voice is heard from
heaven and a light is seen above the brightness of the sun, and Saul is crying
out, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" This mandate is a mandate of free
grace.
When sinners are saved, it is only and solely because God will do it to magnify
his free, unpurchased, unsought grace. Christians, see your position, debtors
to grace; show your gratitude by earnest, Christlike lives, and as God has
bidden you live, see to it that you live in earnest.
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