Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Wednesday September 22, 2021 |
Evening Time: 3:08 PM PST
"When my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the Rock that is higher than I."
--Psalm 61:2
Most of us know what it is to be overwhelmed in heart; emptied as when a man
wipeth a dish and turneth it upside down; submerged and thrown on our beam ends
like a vessel mastered by the storm. Discoveries of inward corruption will do
this, if the Lord permits the great deep of our depravity to become troubled and
cast up mire and dirt. Disappointments and heart-breaks will do this when billow
after billow rolls over us, and we are like a broken shell hurled to and fro by
the surf. Blessed be God, at such seasons we are not without an all-sufficient
solace, our God is the harbour of weather-beaten sails, the hospice of forlorn
pilgrims. Higher than we are is He, His mercy higher than our sins, His love
higher than our thoughts. It is pitiful to see men putting their trust in
something lower than themselves; but our confidence is fixed upon an exceeding
high and glorious Lord. A Rock He is since He changes not, and a high Rock,
because the tempests which overwhelm us roll far beneath at His feet; He is not
disturbed by them, but rules them at His will. If we get under the shelter of
this lofty Rock we may defy the hurricane; all is calm under the lee of that
towering cliff. Alas! such is the confusion in which the troubled mind is often
cast, that we need piloting to this divine shelter. Hence the prayer of the
text. O Lord, our God, by Thy Holy Spirit, teach us the way of faith, lead us
into Thy rest. The wind blows us out to sea, the helm answers not to our puny
hand; Thou, Thou alone canst steer us over the bar between yon sunken rocks,
safe into the fair haven. How dependent we are upon Thee--we need Thee to bring
us to Thee. To be wisely directed and steered into safety and peace is Thy gift,
and Thine alone. This night be pleased to deal well with Thy servants.
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