Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Thursday December 13, 2018 |
Evening Time: 11:41 PM PST
"I will make thy windows of agates." --Isaiah 54:12
The church is most instructively symbolized by a building erected by heavenly
power, and designed by divine skill. Such a spiritual house must not be dark,
for the Israelites had light in their dwellings; there must therefore be windows
to let the light in and to allow the inhabitants to gaze abroad. These windows
are precious as agates: the ways in which the church beholds her Lord and
heaven, and spiritual truth in general, are to be had in the highest esteem.
Agates are not the most transparent of gems, they are but semi-pellucid
at the best:
"Our knowledge of that life is small,
Our eye of faith is dim."
Faith is one of these precious agate windows, but alas! it is
often so misty and beclouded, that we see but darkly, and mistake much that we
do see. Yet if we cannot gaze through windows of diamonds and know even as we
are known, it is a glorious thing to behold the altogether lovely One, even
though the glass be hazy as the agate. Experience is another of these dim
but precious windows, yielding to us a subdued religious light, in which we see
the sufferings of the Man of Sorrows, through our own afflictions. Our weak eyes
could not endure windows of transparent glass to let in the Master's glory, but
when they are dimmed with weeping, the beams of the Sun of Righteousness are
tempered, and shine through the windows of agate with a soft radiance
inexpressibly soothing to tempted souls. Sanctification, as it conforms
us to our Lord, is another agate window. Only as we become heavenly can we
comprehend heavenly things. The pure in heart see a pure God. Those who are like
Jesus see Him as He is. Because we are so little like Him, the window is but
agate; because we are somewhat like Him, it is agate. We thank God for what we
have, and long for more. When shall we see God and Jesus, and heaven and truth,
face to face?
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