Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Thursday October 12, 2017 |
Morning Time: 4:18 AM PST
"I will meditate in Thy precepts." --Psalm 119:15
There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser
than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon
God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour
in His service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get
the real nutriment out of them. Truth is something like the cluster of the
vine: if we would have wine from it, we must bruise it; we must press and
squeeze it many times. The bruiser's feet must come down joyfully upon the
bunches, or else the juice will not flow; and they must well tread the grapes,
or else much of the precious liquid will be wasted. So we must, by meditation,
tread the clusters of truth, if we would get the wine of consolation therefrom.
Our bodies are not supported by merely taking food into the mouth, but the
process which really supplies the muscle, and the nerve, and the sinew, and the
bone, is the process of digestion. It is by digestion that the outward food
becomes assimilated with the inner life. Our souls are not nourished merely by
listening awhile to this, and then to that, and then to the other part of divine
truth. Hearing, reading, marking, and learning, all require inwardly digesting
to complete their usefulness, and the inward digesting of the truth lies for the
most part in meditating upon it. Why is it that some Christians, although they
hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they
neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God's Word. They love
the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not
go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they
will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to
drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord, and be this our resolve this
morning, "I will meditate in Thy precepts."
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