Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Sunday September 27, 2020 |
Morning Time: 8:37 AM PST
"Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by the
Lord!" --Deuteronomy 33:29
He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter
stranger to it. It were strange indeed, if it made us wretched, for see to
what a position it exalts us! It makes us sons of God. Suppose you that God
will give all the happiness to His enemies, and reserve all the mourning for His
own family? Shall His foes have mirth and joy, and shall His home-born children
inherit sorrow and wretchedness? Shall the sinner, who has no part in Christ,
call himself rich in happiness, and shall we go mourning as if we were penniless
beggars? No, we will rejoice in the Lord always, and glory in our inheritance,
for we "have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but we have
received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." The rod of
chastisement must rest upon us in our measure, but it worketh for us the
comfortable fruits of righteousness; and therefore by the aid of the divine
Comforter, we, the "people saved of the Lord," will joy in the God of our
salvation. We are married unto Christ; and shall our great Bridegroom permit His
spouse to linger in constant grief? Our hearts are knit unto Him: we are His
members, and though for awhile we may suffer as our Head once suffered, yet we
are even now blessed with heavenly blessings in Him. We have the earnest of our
inheritance in the comforts of the Spirit, which are neither few nor small.
Heritors of joy for ever, we have foretastes of our portion. There are streaks
of the light of joy to herald our eternal sunrising. Our riches are beyond the
sea; our city with firm foundations lies on the other side the river; gleams of
glory from the spirit-world cheer our hearts, and urge us onward. Truly is it
said of us, "Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by
the Lord?"
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