Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Monday March 23, 2020 |
Evening Time: 4:14 PM PST
"I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would
immediately cry out." --Luke 19:40
But could the stones cry out? Assuredly they could if He who opens the mouth
of the dumb should bid them lift up their voice. Certainly if they were to
speak, they would have much to testify in praise of Him who created them by the
word of His power; they could extol the wisdom and power of their Maker
who called them into being. Shall not we speak well of Him who made us
anew, and out of stones raised up children unto Abraham? The old rocks could
tell of chaos and order, and the handiwork of God in successive stages of
creation's drama; and cannot we talk of God's decrees, of God's great
work in ancient times, in all that He did for His church in the days of old? If
the stones were to speak, they could tell of their breaker, how he took
them from the quarry, and made them fit for the temple, and cannot we tell of
our glorious Breaker, who broke our hearts with the hammer of His word, that He
might build us into His temple? If the stones should cry out they would magnify
their builder, who polished them and fashioned them after the similitude
of a palace; and shall not we talk of our Architect and Builder, who has put us
in our place in the temple of the living God? If the stones could cry out, they
might have a long, long story to tell by way of memorial, for many a time hath a
great stone been rolled as a memorial before the Lord; and we too can testify of
Ebenezers, stones of help, pillars of remembrance. The broken stones of the law
cry out against us, but Christ Himself, who has rolled away the stone from the
door of the sepulchre, speaks for us. Stones might well cry out, but we will not
let them: we will hush their noise with ours; we will break forth into sacred
song, and bless the majesty of the Most High, all our days glorifying Him who is
called by Jacob the Shepherd and Stone of Israel.
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