Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Saturday August 1, 2020 |
Evening Time: 10:30 PM PST
"Thou crownest the year with Thy goodness." --Psalm 65:11
All the year round, every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both
when we sleep and when we wake His mercy waits upon us. The sun may leave us a
legacy of darkness, but our God never ceases to shine upon His children with
beams of love. Like a river, His lovingkindness is always flowing, with a
fulness inexhaustible as His own nature. Like the atmosphere which constantly
surrounds the earth, and is always ready to support the life of man, the
benevolence of God surrounds all His creatures; in it, as in their element, they
live, and move, and have their being. Yet as the sun on summer days gladdens us
with beams more warm and bright than at other times, and as rivers are at
certain seasons swollen by the rain, and as the atmosphere itself is sometimes
fraught with more fresh, more bracing, or more balmy influences than heretofore,
so is it with the mercy of God; it hath its golden hours; its days of overflow,
when the Lord magnifieth His grace before the sons of men. Amongst the blessings
of the nether springs, the joyous days of harvest are a special season of
excessive favour. It is the glory of autumn that the ripe gifts of providence
are then abundantly bestowed; it is the mellow season of realization, whereas
all before was but hope and expectation. Great is the joy of harvest. Happy are
the reapers who fill their arms with the liberality of heaven. The Psalmist
tells us that the harvest is the crowning of the year. Surely these crowning
mercies call for crowning thanksgiving! Let us render it by the inward
emotions of gratitude. Let our hearts be warmed; let our spirits remember,
meditate, and think upon this goodness of the Lord. Then let us praise Him
with our lips, and laud and magnify His name from whose bounty all this
goodness flows. Let us glorify God by yielding our gifts to His cause. A
practical proof of our gratitude is a special thank-offering to the Lord of the
harvest.
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