Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Sunday June 13, 2021 |
Evening Time: 7:18 PM PST
"Remove far from me vanity and lies." --Proverbs 30:8
"O my God, be not far from me." Psalm 38:21. Here we have two great
lessons--what to deprecate and what to supplicate. The happiest state of a
Christian is the holiest state. As there is the most heat nearest to the sun, so
there is the most happiness nearest to Christ. No Christian enjoys comfort when
his eyes are fixed on vanity--he finds no satisfaction unless his soul is
quickened in the ways of God. The world may win happiness elsewhere, but he
cannot. I do not blame ungodly men for rushing to their pleasures. Why should I?
Let them have their fill. That is all they have to enjoy. A converted wife who
despaired of her husband was always very kind to him, for she said, "I fear that
this is the only world in which he will be happy, and therefore I have made up
my mind to make him as happy as I can in it." Christians must seek their
delights in a higher sphere than the insipid frivolities or sinful enjoyments of
the world. Vain pursuits are dangerous to renewed souls. We have heard of a
philosopher who, while he looked up to the stars, fell into a pit; but
how deeply do they fall who look down. Their fall is fatal. No Christian
is safe when his soul is slothful, and his God is far from him. Every Christian
is always safe as to the great matter of his standing in Christ, but he is not
safe as regards his experience in holiness, and communion with Jesus in this
life. Satan does not often attack a Christian who is living near to God. It is
when the Christian departs from his God, becomes spiritually starved, and
endeavours to feed on vanities, that the devil discovers his vantage hour. He
may sometimes stand foot to foot with the child of God who is active in his
Master's service, but the battle is generally short: he who slips as he goes
down into the Valley of Humiliation, every time he takes a false step invites
Apollyon to assail him. O for grace to walk humbly with our God!
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