Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Evening Devotional For Friday June 5, 2020 |
Evening Time: 6:13 PM PST
"He that loveth not knoweth not God." --1 John 4:8
The distinguishing mark of a Christian is his confidence in the love of
Christ, and the yielding of his affections to Christ in return. First, faith
sets her seal upon the man by enabling the soul to say with the apostle, "Christ
loved me and gave Himself for me." Then love gives the countersign, and stamps
upon the heart gratitude and love to Jesus in return. "We love Him because He
first loved us." In those grand old ages, which are the heroic period of the
Christian religion, this double mark was clearly to be seen in all believers in
Jesus; they were men who knew the love of Christ, and rested upon it as a man
leaneth upon a staff whose trustiness he has tried. The love which they felt
towards the Lord was not a quiet emotion which they hid within themselves in the
secret chamber of their souls, and which they only spake of in their private
assemblies when they met on the first day of the week, and sang hymns in honour
of Christ Jesus the crucified, but it was a passion with them of such a vehement
and all-consuming energy, that it was visible in all their actions, spoke in
their common talk, and looked out of their eyes even in their commonest glances.
Love to Jesus was a flame which fed upon the core and heart of their being; and,
therefore, from its own force burned its way into the outer man, and shone
there. Zeal for the glory of King Jesus was the seal and mark of all genuine
Christians. Because of their dependence upon Christ's love they dared
much, and because of their love to Christ they did much, and it is the
same now. The children of God are ruled in their inmost powers by love--the love
of Christ constraineth them; they rejoice that divine love is set upon them,
they feel it shed abroad in their hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto
them, and then by force of gratitude they love the Saviour with a pure heart,
fervently. My reader, do you love Him? Ere you sleep give an honest
answer to a weighty question!
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