Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Tuesday July 10, 2018 |
Evening Time: 11:11 PM PST
"And the evening and the morning were the first day." --Genesis 1:5
The evening was "darkness" and the morning was "light," and yet the two
together are called by the name that is given to the light alone! This is
somewhat remarkable, but it has an exact analogy in spiritual experience. In
every believer there is darkness and light, and yet he is not to be named a
sinner because there is sin in him, but he is to be named a saint because he
possesses some degree of holiness. This will be a most comforting thought to
those who are mourning their infirmities, and who ask, "Can I be a child of God
while there is so much darkness in me?" Yes; for you, like the day, take not
your name from the evening, but from the morning; and you are spoken of in the
word of God as if you were even now perfectly holy as you will be soon. You are
called the child of light, though there is darkness in you still. You are named
after what is the predominating quality in the sight of God, which will one day
be the only principle remaining. Observe that the evening comes first.
Naturally we are darkness first in order of time, and the gloom is often first
in our mournful apprehension, driving us to cry out in deep humiliation, "God be
merciful to me, a sinner." The place of the morning is second, it dawns when
grace overcomes nature. It is a blessed aphorism of John Bunyan, "That which is
last, lasts for ever." That which is first, yields in due season to the last;
but nothing comes after the last. So that though you are naturally darkness,
when once you become light in the Lord, there is no evening to follow; "thy sun
shall no more go down." The first day in this life is an evening and a morning;
but the second day, when we shall be with God, for ever, shall be a day with no
evening, but one, sacred, high, eternal noon.
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