Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Sunday October 21, 2018 |
Morning Time: 3:05 AM PST
"The love of Christ constraineth us." --2 Corinthians 5:14
How much owest thou unto my Lord? Has He ever done anything for thee? Has He
forgiven thy sins? Has He covered thee with a robe of righteousness? Has He set
thy feet upon a rock? Has He established thy goings? Has He prepared heaven for
thee? Has He prepared thee for heaven? Has He written thy name in His book of
life? Has He given thee countless blessings? Has He laid up for thee a store of
mercies, which eye hath not seen nor ear heard? Then do something for Jesus
worthy of His love. Give not a mere wordy offering to a dying Redeemer. How will
you feel when your Master comes, if you have to confess that you did
nothing for Him, but kept your love shut up, like a stagnant pool, neither
flowing forth to His poor or to His work. Out on such love as that! What do men
think of a love which never shows itself in action? Why, they say, "Open rebuke
is better than secret love." Who will accept a love so weak that it does not
actuate you to a single deed of self-denial, of generosity, of heroism, or zeal!
Think how He has loved you, and given Himself for you! Do you know the
power of that love? Then let it be like a rushing mighty wind to your soul to
sweep out the clouds of your worldliness, and clear away the mists of sin. "For
Christ's sake" be this the tongue of fire that shall sit upon you: "for Christ's
sake" be this the divine rapture, the heavenly afflatus to bear you aloft from
earth, the divine spirit that shall make you bold as lions and swift as eagles
in your Lord's service. Love should give wings to the feet of service, and
strength to the arms of labour. Fixed on God with a constancy that is not to be
shaken, resolute to honour Him with a determination that is not to be turned
aside, and pressing on with an ardour never to be wearied, let us manifest the
constraints of love to Jesus. May the divine loadstone draw us heavenward
towards itself.
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