Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Sunday November 12, 2017 |
Evening Time: 4:06 PM PST
"And it came to pass in those days, that He went out into a mountain to pray,
and continued all night in prayer to God." --Luke 6:12
If ever one of woman born might have lived without prayer, it was our
spotless, perfect a Lord, and yet none was ever so much in supplication as He!
Such was His love to His Father, that He loved much to be in communion with Him:
such His love for His people, that He desired to be much in intercession for
them. The fact of this eminent prayerfulness of Jesus is a lesson for
us--He hath given us an example that we may follow in His steps. The time
He chose was admirable, it was the hour of silence, when the crowd would not
disturb Him; the time of inaction, when all but Himself had ceased to labour;
and the season when slumber made men forget their woes, and cease their
applications to Him for relief. While others found rest in sleep, He refreshed
Himself with prayer. The place was also well selected. He was alone where
none would intrude, where none could observe: thus was He free from Pharisaic
ostentation and vulgar interruption. Those dark and silent hills were a fit
oratory for the Son of God. Heaven and earth in midnight stillness heard the
groans and sighs of the mysterious Being in whom both worlds were blended.
The continuance of His pleadings is remarkable; the long watches were not
too long; the cold wind did not chill His devotions; the grim darkness did not
darken His faith, or loneliness check His importunity. We cannot watch with Him
one hour, but He watched for us whole nights. The occasion for this
prayer is notable; it was after His enemies had been enraged--prayer was His
refuge and solace; it was before He sent forth the twelve apostles--prayer was
the gate of His enterprise, the herald of His new work. Should we not learn from
Jesus to resort to special prayer when we are under peculiar trial, or
contemplate fresh endeavours for the Master's glory? Lord Jesus, teach us to
pray.
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