Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Monday August 26, 2019 |
Morning Time: 7:39 AM PST
"He hath commanded His covenant for ever." --Psalms 111:9
The Lord's people delight in the covenant itself. It is an unfailing source
of consolation to them so often as the Holy Spirit leads them into its
banqueting house and waves its banner of love. They delight to contemplate
the antiquity of that covenant, remembering that before the day-star knew
its place, or planets ran their round, the interests of the saints were made
secure in Christ Jesus. It is peculiarly pleasing to them to remember the
sureness of the covenant, while meditating upon "the sure mercies of David."
They delight to celebrate it as "signed, and sealed, and ratified, in all things
ordered well." It often makes their hearts dilate with joy to think of its
immutability, as a covenant which neither time nor eternity, life nor
death, shall ever be able to violate--a covenant as old as eternity and as
everlasting as the Rock of ages. They rejoice also to feast upon the
fulness of this covenant, for they see in it all things provided for them.
God is their portion, Christ their companion, the Spirit their Comforter, earth
their lodge, and heaven their home. They see in it an inheritance reserved and
entailed to every soul possessing an interest in its ancient and eternal deed of
gift. Their eyes sparkled when they saw it as a treasure-trove in the Bible; but
oh! how their souls were gladdened when they saw in the last will and testament
of their divine kinsman, that it was bequeathed to them! More especially it is
the pleasure of God's people to contemplate the graciousness of this
covenant. They see that the law was made void because it was a covenant of works
and depended upon merit, but this they perceive to be enduring because grace is
the basis, grace the condition, grace the strain, grace the bulwark, grace the
foundation, grace the topstone. The covenant is a treasury of wealth, a granary
of food, a fountain of life, a store-house of salvation, a charter of peace, and
a haven of joy.
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