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Spurgeon's Morning & Evening Devotions
Morning, July 5
"The daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee." - Isaiah 37:22
Reassured by the Word of the Lord, the poor trembling citizens of Zion grew
bold, and shook their heads at Sennacherib's boastful threats. Strong faith
enables the servants of God to look with calm contempt upon their most haughty
foes. We know that our
enemies are attempting impossibilities.
They seek to destroy the eternal life, which cannot die while Jesus lives; to
overthrow the citadel, against which the gates of hell shall not prevail. They
kick against the pricks to their own wounding, and rush upon the bosses of
Jehovah's buckler to their own hurt.
We know their weakness. What are they but men? And what is man but a worm? They
roar and swell like waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame. When the
Lord ariseth, they shall fly as chaff before the wind, and be consumed as
crackling thorns. Their utter powerlessness to do damage to the cause of God
and his truth, may make the weakest soldiers in Zion's ranks laugh them to
scorn.
Above all, we know that the Most High is with us, and when he dresses himself
in arms, where are his enemies? If he cometh forth from his place, the
potsherds of the earth will not long contend with their Maker. His rod of iron
shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel, and their very remembrance
shall perish from the earth. Away, then, all fears, the kingdom is safe in the
King's hands. Let us shout for joy, for the Lord reigneth, and his foes shall
be as straw for the dunghill.
"As true as God's own word is true;
Nor earth, nor hell, with all their crew,
Against us shall prevail.
A jest, and by-word, are they grown;
God is with us, we are his own,
Our victory cannot fail."
Evening, July 5
"Why go I mourning?" - Psalm 42:9
Canst thou answer this, believer? Canst 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 sea of
circumstances would ebb
out till there should be nothing left but long leagues of the mud of horrible
poverty? 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 winter? Hope thou then! Hope thou ever! For God fails
thee not. Dost thou not know that thy God loves thee in the midst of all this?
Mountains, when in
darkness hidden, are as real as in day, and God's love is as true to thee now
as it was in thy brightest moments. No father chastens always: thy Lord hates
the rod as much as thou dost; he only cares to use it for that reason which
should make thee willing to receive it, namely, that it works thy lasting good.
Thou shalt yet climb Jacob's ladder with the angels, and behold him who sits at
the top of it-thy covenant God. Thou shalt yet, amidst the splendours of
eternity, forget the trials of time, or only remember them to bless the God who
led thee through them, and wrought thy lasting good by them. Come, sing in the
midst of tribulation.
Rejoice even while passing through the furnace. Make the wilderness to blossom
like the rose! Cause the desert to ring with thine exulting joys, for these
light afflictions will soon
be over, and then "for ever with the Lord," thy bliss shall never wane.
"Faint not nor fear, his arms are near,
He changeth not, and thou art dear;
Only believe and thou shalt see,
That Christ is all in all to thee."
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Daily devotions for 07-01-2005:
Devotion: Morning and Evening
Morning Title: Wealth From Christ
Evening Title: On God's Command
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Morning: Wealth From Christ
"And the glory which Thou gavest me I have given them." --John 17:22
Behold the superlative liberality of the Lord Jesus, for He hath given us His
all. Although a
tithe of His possessions would have made a universe of angels rich beyond all
thought, yet was He not content until He had given us all that He had.
It would have been surprising grace if He had allowed us to eat the crumbs of
His bounty
beneath the table of His mercy; but He will do nothing by halves, He makes us
sit with Him and share the feast. Had He given us some small pension from His
royal coffers, we should have had cause to love Him eternally; but no, He will
have His bride as rich as Himself, and He will not have a glory or a grace in
which she shall not share. He has not been content with less than making us
joint-heirs with Himself, so that we might have equal possessions. He has
emptied all His estate into the coffers of the Church, and
hath all things common with His redeemed. There is not one room in His house
the key of which He will withhold from His people. He gives them full liberty
to take all that He hath to be their own; He loves them to make free with His
treasure, and appropriate as much as they can possibly carry.
The boundless fulness of His all-sufficiency is as free to the believer as the
air he breathes.
Christ hath put the flagon of His love and grace to the believer's lip, and
bidden him drink on for ever; for could he drain it, he is welcome to do so,
and as he cannot exhaust it, he is bidden to drink abundantly, for it is all
his own. What truer proof of fellowship can heaven or earth afford?
"When I stand before the throne
Dressed in beauty not my own;
When I see Thee as Thou art,
Love Thee with unsinning heart;
Then, Lord, shall I fully know--
Not till then--how much I owe."
Evening: On God's Command
"Ah Lord God, behold, Thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great
power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for Thee."
--Jeremiah 32:17
At the very time when the Chaldeans surrounded Jerusalem, and when the sword,
famine and pestilence had desolated the land, Jeremiah was commanded by God to
purchase a field, and have the deed of transfer legally sealed and witnessed.
This was a strange purchase for a rational man to make. Prudence could not
justify it, for it was buying with scarcely a probability that the person
purchasing could ever enjoy the possession. But it was enough for Jeremiah that
his God had bidden him, for well he knew that God
will be justified of all His children.
He reasoned thus: "Ah, Lord God! Thou canst make this plot of ground of use to
me; Thou canst rid this land of these oppressors; Thou canst make me yet sit
under my vine and my fig-tree in the heritage which I have bought; for Thou
didst make the heavens and the earth, and there is nothing too hard for Thee."
This gave a majesty to the early saints, that they dared to do at God's command
things which carnal reason would condemn.
Whether it be a Noah who is to build a ship on dry land, an Abraham who is to
offer up his only son, or a Moses who is to despise the treasures of Egypt, or
a Joshua who is to besiege Jericho seven days, using no weapons but the blasts
of rams' horns, they all act upon God's command, contrary to the dictates of
carnal reason; and the Lord gives them a rich reward as the result of their
obedient faith.
Would to God we had in the religion of these modern times a more potent
infusion of this
heroic faith in God. If we would venture more upon the naked promise of God, we
should enter a world of wonders to which as yet we are strangers. Let
Jeremiah's place of confidence be ours--nothing is too hard for the God that
created the heavens and the earth.
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