Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Thursday March 15, 2018 |
Evening Time: 8:27 PM PST
"He did it with all his heart and prospered." --2 Chronicles 31:21
This is no unusual occurrence; it is the general rule of the moral universe
that those men prosper who do their work with all their hearts, while those are
almost certain to fail who go to their labour leaving half their hearts behind
them. God does not give harvests to idle men except harvests of thistles, nor is
He pleased to send wealth to those who will not dig in the field to find its hid
treasure. It is universally confessed that if a man would prosper, he must be
diligent in business. It is the same in religion as it is in other things. If
you would prosper in your work for Jesus, let it be heart work, and let
it be done with all your heart. Put as much force, energy, heartiness, and
earnestness into religion as ever you do into business, for it deserves far
more. The Holy Spirit helps our infirmities, but He does not encourage our
idleness; He loves active believers. Who are the most useful men in the
Christian church? The men who do what they undertake for God with all their
hearts. Who are the most successful Sabbath-school teachers? The most
talented? No; the most zealous; the men whose hearts are on fire, those are the
men who see their Lord riding forth prosperously in the majesty of His
salvation. Whole-heartedness shows itself in perseverance; there may be
failure at first, but the earnest worker will say, "It is the Lord's work, and
it must be done; my Lord has bidden me do it, and in His strength I will
accomplish it." Christian, art thou thus "with all thine heart" serving thy
Master? Remember the earnestness of Jesus! Think what heart-work was His! He
could say, "The zeal of Thine house hath eaten Me up." When He sweat
great drops of blood, it was no light burden He had to carry upon those blessed
shoulders; and when He poured out His heart, it was no weak effort He was making
for the salvation of His people. Was Jesus in earnest, and are we lukewarm?
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