Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Monday October 19, 2020 |
Morning Time: 3:06 AM PST
"Babes in Christ." --1 Corinthians 3:1
Are you mourning, believer, because you are so weak in the divine life:
because your faith is so little, your love so feeble? Cheer up, for you have
cause for gratitude. Remember that in some things you are equal to the
greatest and most full-grown Christian. You are as much bought with blood as
he is. You are as much an adopted child of God as any other believer. An infant
is as truly a child of its parents as is the full-grown man. You are as
completely justified, for your justification is not a thing of degrees: your
little faith has made you clean every whit. You have as much right to the
precious things of the covenant as the most advanced believers, for your right
to covenant mercies lies not in your growth, but in the covenant itself; and
your faith in Jesus is not the measure, but the token of your inheritance in
Him. You are as rich as the richest, if not in enjoyment, yet in real
possession. The smallest star that gleams is set in heaven; the faintest ray of
light has affinity with the great orb of day. In the family register of glory
the small and the great are written with the same pen. You are as dear to your
Father's heart as the greatest in the family. Jesus is very tender over you. You
are like the smoking flax; a rougher spirit would say, "put out that smoking
flax, it fills the room with an offensive odour!" but the smoking flax He
will not quench. You are like a bruised reed; and any less tender hand than that
of the Chief Musician would tread upon you or throw you away, but He will never
break the bruised reed. Instead of being downcast by reason of what you are, you
should triumph in Christ. Am I but little in Israel? Yet in Christ I am made to
sit in heavenly places. Am I poor in faith? Still in Jesus I am heir of all
things. Though "less than nothing I can boast, and vanity confess." yet, if the
root of the matter be in me I will rejoice in the Lord, and glory in the God of
my salvation.
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