Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Sunday February 11, 2018 |
Evening Time: 5:31 PM PST
"Thou hast left thy first love." --Revelation 2:4
Ever to be remembered is that best and brightest of hours, when first we saw
the Lord, lost our burden, received the roll of promise, rejoiced in full
salvation, and went on our way in peace. It was spring time in the soul; the
winter was past; the mutterings of Sinai's thunders were hushed; the flashings
of its lightnings were no more perceived; God was beheld as reconciled; the law
threatened no vengeance, justice demanded no punishment. Then the flowers
appeared in our heart; hope, love, peace, and patience sprung from the sod; the
hyacinth of repentance, the snowdrop of pure holiness, the crocus of golden
faith, the daffodil of early love, all decked the garden of the soul. The time
of the singing of birds was come, and we rejoiced with thanksgiving; we
magnified the holy name of our forgiving God, and our resolve was, "Lord, I am
Thine, wholly Thine; all I am, and all I have, I would devote to Thee. Thou hast
brought me with Thy blood--let me spend myself and be spent in Thy service. In
life and in death let me be consecrated to Thee." How have we kept this
resolve? Our espousal love burned with a holy flame of devoutedness to
Jesus--is it the same now? Might not Jesus well say to us, "I have
somewhat against thee, because thou hast left they first love"? Alas! it is but
little we have done for our Master's glory. Our winter has lasted all too long.
We are as cold as ice when we should feel a summer's glow and bloom with sacred
flowers. We give to God pence when He deserveth pounds, nay, deserveth our
heart's blood to be coined in the service of His church and of His truth. But
shall we continue thus? O Lord, after Thou hast so richly blessed us, shall we
be ungrateful and become indifferent to Thy good cause and work? O quicken us
that we may return to our first love, and do our first works! Send us a genial
spring, O Sun of Righteousness.
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