Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Wednesday June 12, 2019 |
Morning Time: 1:45 AM PST
"Thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting." --Daniel 5:27
It is well frequently to weigh ourselves in the scale of God's Word. You will
find it a holy exercise to read some psalm of David, and, as you meditate upon
each verse, to ask yourself, "Can I say this? Have I felt as David felt? Has my
heart ever been broken on account of sin, as his was when he penned his
penitential psalms? Has my soul been full of true confidence in the hour of
difficulty as his was when he sang of God's mercies in the cave of Adullam, or
in the holds of Engedi? Do I take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of
the Lord?" Then turn to the life of Christ, and as you read, ask yourselves how
far you are conformed to His likeness. Endeavour to discover whether you have
the meekness, the humility, the lovely spirit which He constantly inculcated and
displayed. Take, then, the epistles, and see whether you can go with the apostle
in what he said of his experience. Have you ever cried out as he did--"O
wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death"? Have
you ever felt his self-abasement? Have you seemed to yourself the chief of
sinners, and less than the least of all saints? Have you known anything of his
devotion? Could you join with him and say, "For me to live is Christ, and to die
is gain"? If we thus read God's Word as a test of our spiritual condition, we
shall have good reason to stop many a time and say, "Lord, I feel I have never
yet been here, O bring me here! give me true penitence, such as this I read of.
Give me real faith; give me warmer zeal; inflame me with more fervent love;
grant me the grace of meekness; make me more like Jesus. Let me no longer be
'found wanting,' when weighed in the balances of the sanctuary, lest I be found
wanting in the scales of judgment." "Judge yourselves that ye be not judged."
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