Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Sunday June 18, 2017 |
Evening Time: 9:41 PM PST
"I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse." --Song of Solomon 5:1
The heart of the believer is Christ's garden. He bought it with His precious
blood, and He enters it and claims it as His own. A garden implies
separation. It is not the open common; it is not a wilderness; it is walled
around, or hedged in. Would that we could see the wall of separation between the
church and the world made broader and stronger. It makes one sad to hear
Christians saying, "Well, there is no harm in this; there is no harm in that,"
thus getting as near to the world as possible. Grace is at a low ebb in that
soul which can even raise the question of how far it may go in worldly
conformity. A garden is a place of beauty, it far surpasses the wild
uncultivated lands. The genuine Christian must seek to be more excellent in his
life than the best moralist, because Christ's garden ought to produce the best
flowers in all the world. Even the best is poor compared with Christ's
deservings; let us not put Him off with withering and dwarf plants. The rarest,
richest, choicest lilies and roses ought to bloom in the place which Jesus calls
His own. The garden is a place of growth. The saints are not to remain
undeveloped, always mere buds and blossoms. We should grow in grace, and in the
knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Growth should be rapid where
Jesus is the Husbandman, and the Holy Spirit the dew from above. A garden is
a place of retirement. So the Lord Jesus Christ would have us reserve our
souls as a place in which He can manifest Himself, as He doth not unto the
world. O that Christians were more retired, that they kept their hearts more
closely shut up for Christ! We often worry and trouble ourselves, like Martha,
with much serving, so that we have not the room for Christ that Mary had, and do
not sit at His feet as we should. The Lord grant the sweet showers of His grace
to water His garden this day.
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