Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Tuesday March 2, 2021 |
Evening Time: 11:51 PM PST
"Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that
I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ."
--Ephesians 3:8
The apostle Paul felt it a great privilege to be allowed to preach the
gospel. He did not look upon his calling as a drudgery, but he entered upon it
with intense delight. Yet while Paul was thus thankful for his office, his
success in it greatly humbled him. The fuller a vessel becomes, the deeper it
sinks in the water. Idlers may indulge a fond conceit of their abilities,
because they are untried; but the earnest worker soon learns his own weakness.
If you seek humility, try hard work; if you would know your nothingness,
attempt some great thing for Jesus. If you would feel how utterly powerless you
are apart from the living God, attempt especially the great work of proclaiming
the unsearchable riches of Christ, and you will know, as you never knew before,
what a weak unworthy thing you are. Although the apostle thus knew and confessed
his weakness, he was never perplexed as to the subject of his ministry.
From his first sermon to his last, Paul preached Christ, and nothing but Christ.
He lifted up the cross, and extolled the Son of God who bled thereon. Follow his
example in all your personal efforts to spread the glad tidings of salvation,
and let "Christ and Him crucified" be your ever recurring theme. The Christian
should be like those lovely spring flowers which, when the sun is shining, open
their golden cups, as if saying, "Fill us with thy beams!" but when the sun is
hidden behind a cloud, they close their cups and droop their heads. So should
the Christian feel the sweet influence of Jesus; Jesus must be his sun, and he
must be the flower which yields itself to the Sun of Righteousness. Oh! to speak
of Christ alone, this is the subject which is both "seed for the sower, and
bread for the eater." This is the live coal for the lip of the speaker, and the
master-key to the heart of the hearer.
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