Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Wednesday April 24, 2019 |
Evening Time: 5:07 PM PST
"The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come,
and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land." --Song of Solomon 2:12
Sweet is the season of spring: the long and dreary winter helps us to
appreciate its genial warmth, and its promise of summer enhances its present
delights. After periods of depression of spirit, it is delightful to behold
again the light of the Sun of Righteousness; then our slumbering graces rise
from their lethargy, like the crocus and the daffodil from their beds of earth;
then is our heart made merry with delicious notes of gratitude, far more
melodious than the warbling of birds--and the comforting assurance of peace,
infinitely more delightful than the turtle's note, is heard within the soul. Now
is the time for the soul to seek communion with her Beloved; now must she rise
from her native sordidness, and come away from her old associations. If we do
not hoist the sail when the breeze is favourable, we shall be blameworthy: times
of refreshing ought not to pass over us unimproved. When Jesus Himself visits us
in tenderness, and entreats us to arise, can we be so base as to refuse His
request? He has Himself risen that He may draw us after Him: He now by His Holy
Spirit has revived us, that we may, in newness of life, ascend into the
heavenlies, and hold communion with Himself. Let our wintry state suffice us for
coldness and indifference; when the Lord creates a spring within, let our sap
flow with vigour, and our branch blossom with high resolve. O Lord, if it be not
spring time in my chilly heart, I pray Thee make it so, for I am heartily weary
of living at a distance from Thee. Oh! the long and dreary winter, when wilt
Thou bring it to an end? Come, Holy Spirit, and renew my soul! quicken Thou me!
restore me, and have mercy on me! This very night I would earnestly implore the
Lord to take pity upon His servant, and send me a happy revival of spiritual
life!
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