Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Sunday March 26, 2017 |
Morning Time: 6:01 AM PST
"Jesus said unto them, If ye seek Me, let these go their way." --John 18:8
Mark, my soul, the care which Jesus manifested even in His hour of trial,
towards the sheep of His hand! The ruling passion is strong in death. He resigns
Himself to the enemy, but He interposes a word of power to set His disciples
free. As to Himself, like a sheep before her shearers He is dumb and opened not
His mouth, but for His disciples' sake He speaks with Almighty energy. Herein is
love, constant, self-forgetting, faithful love. But is there not far more here
than is to be found upon the surface? Have we not the very soul and spirit of
the atonement in these words? The Good Shepherd lays down His life for the
sheep, and pleads that they must therefore go free. The Surety is bound, and
justice demands that those for whom He stands a substitute should go their way.
In the midst of Egypt's bondage, that voice rings as a word of power, "Let
these go their way." Out of slavery of sin and Satan the redeemed must come.
In every cell of the dungeons of Despair, the sound is echoed, "Let these go
their way," and forth come Despondency and Much-afraid. Satan hears the
well-known voice, and lifts his foot from the neck of the fallen; and Death
hears it, and the grave opens her gates to let the dead arise. Their way
is one of progress, holiness, triumph, glory, and none shall dare to stay them
in it. No lion shall be on their way, neither shall any ravenous beast go up
thereon. "The hind of the morning" has drawn the cruel hunters upon himself, and
now the most timid roes and hinds of the field may graze at perfect peace among
the lilies of his loves. The thunder-cloud has burst over the Cross of Calvary,
and the pilgrims of Zion shall never be smitten by the bolts of vengeance. Come,
my heart, rejoice in the immunity which thy Redeemer has secured thee, and bless
His name all the day, and every day.
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