Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Sunday August 2, 2020 |
Morning Time: 2:50 AM PST
"Who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will." --Ephesians 1:11
Our belief in God's wisdom supposes and necessitates that He has a settled
purpose and plan in the work of salvation. What would creation have been
without His design? Is there a fish in the sea, or a fowl in the air, which was
left to chance for its formation? Nay, in every bone, joint, and muscle, sinew,
gland, and blood-vessel, you mark the presence of a God working everything
according to the design of infinite wisdom. And shall God be present in
creation, ruling over all, and not in grace? Shall the new creation have
the fickle genius of free will to preside over it when divine counsel rules the
old creation? Look at Providence! Who knoweth not that not a sparrow
falleth to the ground without your Father? Even the hairs of your head are all
numbered. God weighs the mountains of our grief in scales, and the hills of our
tribulation in balances. And shall there be a God in providence and not in
grace? Shall the shell be ordained by wisdom and the kernel be left to blind
chance. No; He knows the end from the beginning. He sees in its appointed place,
not merely the corner-stone which He has laid in fair colours, in the blood of
His dear Son, but He beholds in their ordained position each of the chosen
stones taken out of the quarry of nature, and polished by His grace; He sees the
whole from corner to cornice, from base to roof, from foundation to pinnacle. He
hath in His mind a clear knowledge of every stone which shall be laid in its
prepared space, and how vast the edifice shall be, and when the top-stone shall
be brought forth with shoutings of "Grace! Grace! unto it." At the last it shall
be clearly seen that in every chosen vessel of mercy, Jehovah did as He willed
with His own; and that in every part of the work of grace He accomplished His
purpose, and glorified His own name.
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