Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Thursday May 6, 2021 |
Evening Time: 2:22 PM PST
"All the days of my appointed time will I wait." --Job 14:14
A little stay on earth will make heaven more heavenly. Nothing makes
rest so sweet as toil; nothing renders security so pleasant as exposure to
alarms. The bitter quassia cups of earth will give a relish to the new wine
which sparkles in the golden bowls of glory. Our battered armour and scarred
countenances will render more illustrious our victory above, when we are
welcomed to the seats of those who have overcome the world. We should not have
full fellowship with Christ if we did not for awhile sojourn below, for
He was baptized with a baptism of suffering among men, and we must be baptized
with the same if we would share his kingdom. Fellowship with Christ is so
honourable that the sorest sorrow is a light price by which to procure it.
Another reason for our lingering here is for the good of others. We would
not wish to enter heaven till our work is done, and it may be that we are yet
ordained to minister light to souls benighted in the wilderness of sin. Our
prolonged stay here is doubtless for God's glory. A tried saint, like a
well-cut diamond, glitters much in the King's crown. Nothing reflects so much
honour on a workman as a protracted and severe trial of his work, and its
triumphant endurance of the ordeal without giving way in any part. We are God's
workmanship, in whom He will be glorified by our afflictions. It is for the
honour of Jesus that we endure the trial of our faith with sacred joy. Let each
man surrender his own longings to the glory of Jesus, and feel, "If my lying in
the dust would elevate my Lord by so much as an inch, let me still lie among the
pots of earth. If to live on earth for ever would make my Lord more glorious, it
should be my heaven to be shut out of heaven." Our time is fixed and settled by
eternal decree. Let us not be anxious about it, but wait with patience till the
gates of pearl shall open.
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