Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Tuesday October 15, 2019 |
Morning Time: 11:32 AM PST
"But who may abide the day of his coming?" --Malachi 3:2
His first coming was without external pomp or show of power, and yet in truth
there were few who could abide its testing might. Herod and all Jerusalem with
him were stirred at the news of the wondrous birth. Those who supposed
themselves to be waiting for Him, showed the fallacy of their professions by
rejecting Him when He came. His life on earth was a winnowing fan, which tried
the great heap of religious profession, and few enough could abide the process.
But what will His second advent be? What sinner can endure to think of it? "He
shall smite the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips
shall He slay the wicked." When in His humiliation He did but say to the
soldiers, "I am He," they fell backward; what will be the terror of His enemies
when He shall more fully reveal Himself as the "I am?" His death shook
earth and darkened heaven, what shall be the dreadful splendour of that day in
which as the living Saviour, He shall summon the quick and dead before Him? O
that the terrors of the Lord would persuade men to forsake their sins and kiss
the Son lest He be angry! Though a lamb, He is yet the lion of the tribe of
Judah, rending the prey in pieces; and though He breaks not the bruised reed,
yet will He break His enemies with a rod of iron, and dash them in pieces like a
potter's vessel. None of His foes shall bear up before the tempest of His wrath,
or hide themselves from the sweeping hail of His indignation; but His beloved
bloodwashed people look for His appearing with joy, and hope to abide it without
fear: to them He sits as a refiner even now, and when He has tried them they
shall come forth as gold. Let us search ourselves this morning and make our
calling and election sure, so that the coming of the Lord may cause no dark
forebodings in our mind. O for grace to cast away all hypocrisy, and to be found
of Him sincere and without rebuke in the day of His appearing.
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