Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Friday November 24, 2017 |
Morning Time: 2:10 AM PST
"The glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams."
--Isaiah 33:21
Broad rivers and streams produce fertility, and abundance in the land. Places
near broad rivers are remarkable for the variety of their plants and their
plentiful harvests. God is all this to His Church. Having God she has
abundance. What can she ask for that He will not give her? What want can
she mention which He will not supply? "In this mountain shall the Lord of Hosts
make unto all people a feast of fat things." Want ye the bread of life? It drops
like manna from the sky. Want ye refreshing streams? The rock follows you, and
that Rock is Christ. If you suffer any want it is your own fault; if you are
straitened you are not straitened in Him, but in your own bowels. Broad rivers
and streams also point to commerce. Our glorious Lord is to us a place of
heavenly merchandize. Through our Redeemer we have commerce with the past; the
wealth of Calvary, the treasures of the covenant, the riches of the ancient days
of election, the stores of eternity, all come to us down the broad stream of our
gracious Lord. We have commerce, too, with the future. What galleys, laden to
the water's edge, come to us from the millennium! What visions we have of the
days of heaven upon earth! Through our glorious Lord we have commerce with
angels; communion with the bright spirits washed in blood, who sing before the
throne; nay, better still, we have fellowship with the Infinite One. Broad
rivers and streams are specially intended to set forth the idea of
security. Rivers were of old a defence. Oh! beloved, what a defence is
God to His Church! The devil cannot cross this broad river of God. How he wishes
he could turn the current, but fear not, for God abideth immutably the same.
Satan may worry, but he cannot destroy us; no galley with oars shall invade our
river, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
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