Charles Haddon Spurgeon's Morning Devotional For Friday June 24, 2022 |
Morning Time: 2:17 AM PST
"A certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto Him,
Blessed is the womb that bare Thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. But He
said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it."
--Luke 11:27, 28
It is fondly imagined by some that it must have involved very special
privileges to have been the mother of our Lord, because they supposed that she
had the benefit of looking into His very heart in a way in which we cannot hope
to do. There may be an appearance of plausibility in the supposition, but not
much. We do not know that Mary knew more than others; what she did know she did
well to lay up in her heart; but she does not appear from anything we read in
the Evangelists to have been a better-instructed believer than any other of
Christ's disciples. All that she knew we also may discover. Do you wonder that
we should say so? Here is a text to prove it: "The secret of the Lord is with
them that fear Him, and He will show them His covenant." Remember the Master's
words--"Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his
Lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of
my Father I have made known unto you." So blessedly does this Divine Revealer of
secrets tell us His heart, that He keepeth back nothing which is profitable to
us; His own assurance is, "If it were not so, I would have told you." Doth He
not this day manifest Himself unto us as He doth not unto the world? It is even
so; and therefore we will not ignorantly cry out, "Blessed is the womb that bare
thee," but we will intelligently bless God that, having heard the Word and kept
it, we have first of all as true a communion with the Saviour as the Virgin had,
and in the second place as true an acquaintance with the secrets of His heart as
she can be supposed to have obtained. Happy soul to be thus privileged!
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